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Crier-Of the Court of Chancery, abolished by 15 & 16 Vict. c. 87, s. 27. In the Courts of Common Law one of the judge's clerks acted as crier, 15 & 16 Vict. c. 73, s. 8. Continued under (English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 77. [See Judicature Act, 1926, s. 226 (2)]...
Town Crier
Town Crier, an officer in a town whose business itis to make proclamations. The time-honoured summons is 'Oyez' (hear ye), repeated three times, accompanied by ringing a bell or blowing a horn....
Recovery
Recovery, the obtaining a thing by judgment or trial.The regaining or restoration of something lost or taken away, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1280.A true recovery is an actual or real recovery of anything, or the value thereof, by judgment; as if a man sue for any land or other thing movable or immovable, and gain a verdict or judgment.A feigned recovery. An abolished common assurance by matter of record, in fraud of the statute De Donis, whereby a tenant-in-tail in possession enlarged his estate-tail into a fee-simple and so barred the entail, and all remainders and reversions expectant there-on, with all conditions and collateral limitations annexed to them, and subsequent charges sub-ordinate to the entail. But incumbrances on the estate-tail equally affected such fee-simple, and any estate or interest prior to the entail remained undisturbed.This assurance consisted of two parts: (1) The recovery itself, which was a fictitious rea action in the Court of Common Pleas, carr...
Oyez
Oyez (hear ye), the introduction to any proclamation or advertisement given by the public criers both in England and Scotland. It is pronounced oh ! yes ! See NORMAN FRENCH.Means the utterance oyez, oyez. Oyez is usually used in court by the public crier to call the courtroom to order when a session begins or when proclamation is about to be made, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1132....
Beadle
A messenger or crier of a court a servitor one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer called also an apparitor or summoner...
Crier
One who cries one who makes proclamation...
muezzin
A Mohammedan crier of the hour of prayer the Moslem official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day...
Outcrier
One who cries out or proclaims a herald or crier...
Oyez
Hear attend a term used by criers of courts to secure silence before making a proclamation It is repeated three times...
Beadle, or Bedel
Beadle, or Bedel [fr. beodan, bydel, A. S., to bid], a church-servant who is chosen by the vestry, and whose business is to attend the vestry, to give notice of its meetings, to execute its orders, to attend upon inquests, and to assist the constables. A crier or messenger of a Court, who cites men to appear and answer; an inferior officer of a parish or liberty. Many other kinds of subordinate officers are socalled....
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