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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 The Six Clerks were superseded by the Clerks of Records and Writs....
Ridings
Ridings [ corrupted from trithings], the names of the three parts or divisions of Yorkshire, viz., East Riding, North Riding, and West Riding....
Clerk of Justices of the Peace, clerk of petty Sessions, Clerk of Special Sessions
Clerk of Justices of the Peace, clerk of petty Sessions, Clerk of Special Sessions. The duties of these officers are, by the Justices Clerks Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 43), s. 5, performed by the salaried clerk called in the Act; clerk of a petty sessional division.' Such clerk of a petty sessional division.' Such clerk must, by s. 7, be either a barrister of not less than 14 years' standing, or a solicitor, or have served for not less than seven years as a clerk to a magistrate or to a metropolitan police Court....
Peace, Clerk of the
Peace, Clerk of the, an officer who acts as clerk at the Court of Quarter Sessions, and records all their proceedings. He may have county property conveyed to him under the County Property Act, 1858, and is clerk of the County Council by virtue of s. 83 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888. See also (English) Local Government Clerks Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5. c. 45). He may be removed for misbehaviour in his office under 1 M. & W. c. 21, by the justices in Quarter Sessions, as amended by the Clerks of the (English) Peace Removal Act, 1864 (see now (English) Local Government Clerks Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 45), and the earlier Act also provides the form of oath not to pay for his appointment....
Riding armed
Riding armed. The offence of riding or going armed with dangerous or unusual weapons is a mis-demeanour tending to disturb the public peace by terrifying the good people of the land, 4 Steph.Com....
Clerk of the peace
Clerk of the peace. His duties are to officiate at sessions of the peace, to prepare indictments, and to record the proceedings of the justices, and to perform a number of special duties in connection with the affairs of the county. He is also clerk of the county council, by virtue of s. 83 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888 (applying to London). The offices are separated by (English) Local Government (Clerks) Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 45), s. 1, but by s. 2 usually the same person will be appointed to both. See also (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 101; London County Council General Powers Act, 1930 (c. clix.), ss. 26-28.Removal is regulated by 1 Wm. & M. c. 21, and (English) Local Government Clerks Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 45), ss. 2, 3, 4.As to appointment, etc., in a quarter sessions borough, see (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 164....
Market, Court of the Clerk of the
Market, Court of the Clerk of the. The court of the clerk of the market was incident to every fair and market in the kingdom, to punish misdemeanours therein; as a Court of piepoudre was to determine all disputes relating to private or civil property. The object of this jurisdiction was principally the recognisance of weights and measures, to try whether they were according to the true standard thereof, which standard was anciently committed to the custody of the bishop, who appointed some clerk under him to inspect abuses; and hence this officer, though usually a layman, was called the clerk of the market, 4 Bl. Com. 275. His functions are now discharged by inspectors under the Weights and Measures Act. See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES....
clerk
clerk 1 : an official responsible (as to a court) for correspondence, records, and accounts and having specified powers or authority (as to issue writs) [a city ] [ of court] 2 a : a person employed to keep records or accounts or to perform general office work b : a person (as a law student or graduate) employed by an attorney or judge to assist with case-related tasks (as research) compare paralegal clerk·ship n vi : to act or work as a clerk [ed for a Supreme Court justice] ...
Articled Clerk
Articled Clerk, a pupil of a solicitor, who undertakes, by Articles of clerkship, containing covenants, mutually binding, to instruct him in the principles and practice of the profession. See SOLICITOR.Means a clerk who works for a solicitor in exchange for learning profession, a clerk bound by articles of apprenticeship, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 107....
Clerk
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....
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