Messenger - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Messenger, one who carries an errand; a forerunner.Messengers are certain officers employed under the direction of the Secretaries of State, and always ready to be sent with dispatches, foreign and domestic (now called King's Messengers). They were employed with the secretaries' warrants to arrest persons for treason, or other offences against the State, which did not so properly fall under the cognizance of the Common Law, and, perhaps, were not properly to be divulged in the ordinary course of justice, 2 Hawk. P.C., c. xvi., s. 9.There are other officers distinguished by this appellation, as the messengers of the Lord Chancellor, Privy Council, and Exchequer, etc. Also, in bankruptcy, persons officially appointed who seize a bankrupt's property. The office of messenger of the Great Seal was abolished by 37 & 38 Vict. c. 81...
Messengers-at-arms
Messengers-at-arms are the king's officers who execute all writs passing from the Court of Session. It actions emanating from the Supreme Court in Scotland personal service on a defender can only be effected by a messenger-at-arms....
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...
Cadie
A Scotch errand boy porter or messenger...
Caduceus
The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury the messenger of the gods It was originally said to be a heralds staff of olive wood but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it and two wings at the top...
Carrier
One who or that which carries or conveys a messenger...
Chuprassy
A messenger or servant wearing an official badge...
Codon
a sequence of three nucleotides in a genome or a DNA or messenger RNA molecule which specifies the incorporation of one amino acid or is a stop signal during the biosynthesis of proteins Codons occur within the protein coding segments of the DNA or RNA genome of living organisms The amino acid sequence of proteins synthesized on ribosomes is thus determined by the sequence of the nucleotides in the genome...
Courier
A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches usually on public business...
Ebionite
One of a sect of heretics in the first centuries of the church whose doctrine was a mixture of Judaism and Christianity They denied the divinity of Christ regarding him as an inspired messenger and rejected much of the New Testament...
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