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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 This latter provision has been repealed clerks of the Associates Department of the Crown Office Department of the Central Office of the Supreme Court now perform these duties.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...
Judicial writs
Judicial writs, writs issuing from the court in which proceedings are commenced under its seal, and tested in the name of its chief judge, as distingui-shed from original writs, which issued out of the Court of Chancery....
Law Reports
Law Reports. Reports of judgments of courts on points of law, published for the purpose of being used as precedents (see (REPORTS). Prior to 1865, these reports were all executed and published as mere private speculations, one reporter or pair of reporters being usually, though not always, accredited by the chief judge of each Court. For an account of these reporters and their works, see Handbook of English Law Reports, by Master Fox. In 1865 'The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales' began to publish monthly the reports called The Law Reports. These, though perhaps the best known, have no monopoly-for contemporaneous monthly reports are published under the name of The Law Journal, and contemporaneous weekly reports under the names of The Law Times Reports, The Solicitors' Journal and Weekly Reporter and All England Reports, and The Times Law Reports. All reports made by members of the Bar and published on their responsibility may be cited in argument. For abbrev...
Sheriff (in Scotland)
Sheriff (in Scotland), the chief judge of a county, also called sheriff-substitute, the office of sheriff principal being an intermediate point of appeal between the sheriff-substitute and the Court of Session. His civil jurisdiction extends to all personal actions on contract, bond, or obligation, to the greatest extent; also, by 40 & 41 Vict. c. 50, s. 8, to actions relating to a heritable right where the value of the subject-matter does not exceed 50l. by the year or 1,000l. value, and to all possessory actions, as removings, spuilzies, etc., to all brieves issuing from Chancery in Scotland, as of inquest, terce, division, tutory, etc., and generally to all civil matters not specially committed to other courts. He has also a summary jurisdiction in regard to small debts, as well as a criminal jurisdiction....
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....
Cross-examination
Cross-examination, the examination of a witness by the opposite side, generally after examination in chief, but some times without such examination; as in the case of an examination on the voir dire, which is in the nature of a cross-examination (see VOIR DIRE); and also if one party calls a witness,and he is sworn, the other party may cross-examine him, although the party who has called him put no question at all to him. Some times questions in cross-examination are allowed by the judge after re-examination. See RE-EXAMINATION. And if a witness be called to prove some preliminary and collateral matter only, as the handwriting of a document tendered in evidence, he is a witness in the cause, and may be cross-examined as to any of the issues in the cause.As to theform of the cross-examination, leading questions are allowed, which is not the case in examination in chief.The questions must be relevant to the issue (see infra), but great latitude is allowed, as a question seemingly irrelev...
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the presiding judge in the court of Common Pleas, and afterwards in the Common Pleas Division of the High Court of Justice, and one of the ex-officio judges of the High Court of appeal (English) (Jud. Act, 1873, s. 5, and Jud. Act, 1875, s. 4). He had five (formerly four, until 31 & 32 Vict. c.125, see s. 11) puisne judge associated with him. In 1881, after the promotion of Lord Chief Justice Coleridge to the office of Lord Chief Justice of England, the office was abolished by Order in Council under s. 31 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1873, and merged in that of Lord Chief Justice of England....
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