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A clerk who registers passengers baggage etc for conveyance as by railway or steamship or who sells passage tickets at a booking office...
Riding clerk
Riding clerk, one of the Six Clerks in Chancery, who, in his turn, for one year, kept the controlment books of all grants that passed the Great Seal. The Six Clerks were superseded by the Clerks of Records and Writs....
Motor transport worker
Motor transport worker, means a person who is employed in a motor transport undertaking directly or through an agency, whether for wages or not, to work in a professional capacity on a transport vehicle or to attend to duties in connection with the arrival, departure, loading or unloading of such transport vehicle and includes a driver, conductor, cleaner, station staff, line checking staff, booking clerk, cash clerk, depot clerk, time-keeper, watchman or attendant, but except in s. 8 does not include-(i) any such person who is employed in a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948;(ii) any such person to whom the provisions of any law for the time being in force regulating the conditions of service of persons employed in shops or commercial establishments apply. [The Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961 (27 of 1961), s. 2 (h) (i) (ii)]...
Paper Book
Paper Book, the issues in law, etc., upon special pleadings, formerly made up by the clerk of the papers, who was an officer for that purpose, but latterly by the plaintiff's attorney or agent. See Jac. Law Dict.; 3 Bl. Com. 317.Any party who enters an action for trial must deliver to the officer of the court two copies of the whole of the pleadings, one for the use of the judge at the trial [(English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXVI., r. 30]....
Clerk of Justices of the Peace, clerk of petty Sessions, Clerk of Special Sessions
Clerk of Justices of the Peace, clerk of petty Sessions, Clerk of Special Sessions. The duties of these officers are, by the Justices Clerks Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 43), s. 5, performed by the salaried clerk called in the Act; clerk of a petty sessional division.' Such clerk of a petty sessional division.' Such clerk must, by s. 7, be either a barrister of not less than 14 years' standing, or a solicitor, or have served for not less than seven years as a clerk to a magistrate or to a metropolitan police Court....
Peace, Clerk of the
Peace, Clerk of the, an officer who acts as clerk at the Court of Quarter Sessions, and records all their proceedings. He may have county property conveyed to him under the County Property Act, 1858, and is clerk of the County Council by virtue of s. 83 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888. See also (English) Local Government Clerks Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5. c. 45). He may be removed for misbehaviour in his office under 1 M. & W. c. 21, by the justices in Quarter Sessions, as amended by the Clerks of the (English) Peace Removal Act, 1864 (see now (English) Local Government Clerks Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 45), and the earlier Act also provides the form of oath not to pay for his appointment....
Clerk of the peace
Clerk of the peace. His duties are to officiate at sessions of the peace, to prepare indictments, and to record the proceedings of the justices, and to perform a number of special duties in connection with the affairs of the county. He is also clerk of the county council, by virtue of s. 83 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888 (applying to London). The offices are separated by (English) Local Government (Clerks) Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 45), s. 1, but by s. 2 usually the same person will be appointed to both. See also (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 101; London County Council General Powers Act, 1930 (c. clix.), ss. 26-28.Removal is regulated by 1 Wm. & M. c. 21, and (English) Local Government Clerks Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 45), ss. 2, 3, 4.As to appointment, etc., in a quarter sessions borough, see (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 164....
Market, Court of the Clerk of the
Market, Court of the Clerk of the. The court of the clerk of the market was incident to every fair and market in the kingdom, to punish misdemeanours therein; as a Court of piepoudre was to determine all disputes relating to private or civil property. The object of this jurisdiction was principally the recognisance of weights and measures, to try whether they were according to the true standard thereof, which standard was anciently committed to the custody of the bishop, who appointed some clerk under him to inspect abuses; and hence this officer, though usually a layman, was called the clerk of the market, 4 Bl. Com. 275. His functions are now discharged by inspectors under the Weights and Measures Act. See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES....
Book
Book, the 'book' in common acceptation is a literary composition from which one may extend or advance his or her knowledge and learning, Commr. of Customs v. Parasrampuria Synthetics Ltd., (2001) 9 SCC 74 (82).--For the purposes of s. 15 of the Copyright Act,1911, dealing with the delivery of books to certain libraries, the expression 'book' includes every part or division of a book, pamphlet, sheet of letter-press, sheet of music, map, plan, chart or table separately published, but not a second or subsequent edition of a book unless such edition contains additions or alterations either in the letterpress, or in the maps, prints, or other engravings belonging thereto. By s. 15 a copy of every book published in the United Kingdom must be sent to the British Museum, and on written demand to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the University Library, Cambridge, the Library of the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh, and the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and subject to certain provisos the N...
clerk
clerk 1 : an official responsible (as to a court) for correspondence, records, and accounts and having specified powers or authority (as to issue writs) [a city ] [ of court] 2 a : a person employed to keep records or accounts or to perform general office work b : a person (as a law student or graduate) employed by an attorney or judge to assist with case-related tasks (as research) compare paralegal clerk·ship n vi : to act or work as a clerk [ed for a Supreme Court justice] ...
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