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Clerk [fr. cleric, Sax.; clericus, Lat.], originally a learned man or man of letters, whence the term is appropriated to churchmen who were called clerks and now clergymen, the nobility and gentry being bred to the exercise of arms, and none left to cultivate the sciences but ecclesiastics. Where the canon law has full power, the word 'clerk' comprehends sacerdotes, diaconi, subdiaconi, lectores, acolyti, exorcist', and ostiarii. The word has been anciently used for a secular priest, in opposition to a religious or a regular, Jac. Law Dict....
Arraigns, Clerk of
Arraigns, Clerk of, an assistant to the clerk of assize....
Clerk of Assize
Clerk of Assize. An officer attached to the assizes who attends to various duties on the civil side, acting as associate (q.v.). As to necessary qualifications, etc., see (English) Clerks of Assize Act, 1869, and s. 21 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1884, and (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 79....
Vestry clerk
Vestry clerk, an officer appointed to attend vestries, and take an account of their proceedings, etc. See the Vestries Act, 1850, ss. 6-8, and RATES....
Town Clerk
Town Clerk, a fit person (usually, but not necessarily, a solicitor) from time to time appointed by the council of a municipal borough to manage their legal business. He may not be a councillor, and holds office during the pleasure of the council. In case of his illness or absence, the council may appoint a deputy, (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), s. 17 (repealed, except as to London); see (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 106, 115, 122, 279 (2)....
Shire-clerk
Shire-clerk, he that keeps the county Court....
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 The Six Clerks were superseded by the Clerks of Records and Writs....
Pells, Clerk of the
Pells, Clerk of the, an officer in the Exchequer, who entered every seller's bill on the parchment-rolls, the roll of receipts, and the roll of disbursements. Abolished....
Lord Justice Clerk
Lord Justice Clerk, the second judicial officer in Scotland. See SESSION, COURT OF...
Clerk of the custodies
Clerk of the custodies of lunatics and idiots; abolished, see 2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 111; 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 84; and 5 & 6 Vict. c. 84, s. 10....
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