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chief judge : the principal, presiding, or most senior judge of esp. a lower level court or of a circuit ...
chief justice
chief justice : a chief judge of a usually higher level court ;specif often cap : the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court chief jus·tice·ship n ...
mayor
The chief magistrate of a city or borough the chief administrative officer of a municipal corporation In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge The post is usually elective its holder chosen by the electorate of the entire city...
Judicial-council
Judicial-council, a regularly assembled group of judges whose mission is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the courts or which they sit; esp., a semiannual assembly of a federal circuit's judges called by the circuit's chief judge, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 851....
C.J.
C.J. 1 chief justice 2 chief judge ...
clerk of court
clerk of court an officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge and other judges in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court. Source: Federal Judicial Center ...
Foreign Courts
Foreign Courts. The proceedings of a foreign Court are proved by copies under the seal of such Court, proof being given that the seal affixed is the seal of such Court. If a Court have no seal, then proof by an exemplification under the hand of the chief judge of the Court (his hand writing being judge of the Court (his handwriting being proved) will be received. See Piggott on Foreign Judgmets....
Cadilesker
A chief judge in the Turkish empire so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers who are now tried only by their own officers...
Associate
Associate, was an officer in each of the Courts of Common Law, appointed by the chief judge of the Court, and holding his office dum bene se gesserit (15 & 16 Vict. c. 73); his duties being to superintend the entry of causes; to attend the sittings of Nisi Prius, and there receive and enter verdicts; to draw up the posteas (the indorsement of the result on the record), and any orders of Nisi Prius. The associates were made officers of the Supreme Court by the (English) Judicature Act, 1873, and were given by title of 'Masters of the Supreme Court' by the (English) Judicature (Officers) Act, 1879. This latter provision has been repealed clerks of the Associates Department of the Crown Office Department of the Central Office of the Supreme Court now perform these duties. See CLERK OF ASSIZE.A person is an associate of an individual if person is that individual's husband or wife, or is a relative, or the husband or wife of a relative, of the individual or of the individual's husband or wi...
Dempster
Dempster, the Chief Judge of a Tinwald Court in the Isle of Man. See Scott's Peveril of the Peak, ch. v. See DEEMSTERS.In Scotland in former times the word Dempster or Doomster of Court was the designation of an official person whose duty it was to recite the sentence after it had been pronounced by the Court, and recorded by the clerk; on which occasion the Dempster legalized it by the words of form, 'And this I pronounce for doom.' For a length of years the office was held in commendam with that of the executioner; it has long been abolished. See Scott's Heart of Midlothian, ch. xxiii....
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