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Scrivener [fr. scrivano, Ital.; escrivain, Fr.], or Money Scrivener, a professional man whose business of receiving men's money and investing it for them when he should find a proper opportunity, being trusted as a banker in the meantime, died out about the middle of the eighteenth century. He was subjected to the law of bankruptcy by 21 Jac. 1, c. 19 (repealed by 6 Geo. 4, c. 16), where, and also in Sch. I of the repealed Bankruptcy Act, 1869, he is defined as 'using the trade or profession of a scrivener, receiving other men's monies or estates into his trust or custody.' See Adams v. Malkin, (1814) 3 Camp 539, where the question whether an attorney could be made bankrupt as a scrivener was decided in the negative, and Boswell's Life of Johnson, where it is related that one Jack Ellis, a contemporary of Dr. Johnson, and mentioned by him with great respect, was the last of the scriveners. By s. 13 of the Public Notaries Act, 1801, no person can become a notary within the limits of the...
scrivener
scrivener [Middle English, alteration of scriveyn, from Anglo-French escrivein, ultimately from Latin scriba public record keeper, from scribere to write] : a professional or public copyist or writer of official or formal documents (as deeds or contracts) ...
Graffer
a notary or scrivener...
Scrivener
A professional writer one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings...
Graffer
Graffer, a notary, or scrivener, 5 Hen. 8. C. 1...
Judge
Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a judge but also every person who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal, definitive judgment, or a judgment which, if not appealed against, would be definitive, or a judgment which, is confirmed by some other authority, would be definitive or who is one of a body of persons which body of persons is em-powered by law to give such a judgement (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 19)To secure the dignity and political independence of the judges of the Supreme Court, it is enacted by s. 5 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1875 (replaced by Jud. Act, 1925, s. 12), repeating in effect a provision of the Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), that the judges of the Supreme Court (with the exception of the Lord Chancellor, who goes out with the Ministry) shall hold their o...
Money broker
Money broker, a moneychanger; a scrivener or jobber; one who lends or raises money to or for others....
Notary or Notary Public
Notary or Notary Public [fr. notaire, Fr., fr. notarius, Lat.], an officer who takes notes of anything which may concern the public; he attests deeds or writings to make them authentic in another country; but is principally employed in mercantile affairs, as to make protests of bills of exchange, etc. He cannot permit another to act in his name, and in London he must be free of the Scriveners' Company. See 25 Hen. 8, c. 27, ss. 3, 4; the (English) Public Notaries Acts, 1801, 1833, and 1843 (41 Geo. 3, c. 79, 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 70, and 6 & 7 Vict. c. 90); and consult Brooke on the Office, etc., of a Notary, 6th ed., by Cranstoun. The Court of Faculties makes the appointment in accordance with the Public Notaries Acts, and the Master of that Court has inherent jurisdiction to strike a notary public off the roll (Re Champion, 1906, P. 86). As to its jurisdiction in the case of the Colonies, see Bailleau v. Victorian Society of Notaries, 1904, P. 180.In Scotland a notary public must now be a ...
Fines in copyholds
Fines in copyholds. A fine which is preserved by 12 Car. 2, c. 24, s. 6, is a sum of money payable by custom to the lord. There are three classes of fines:- (1) those due on the change of the lord; (2) those on the change of the tenant; and (3) those for a licence to the tenant to do certain acts.When the fine is due on the change of the lord, such change must be by the act of God, and not in consequence of any act of the party. It can therefore be only claimed on the death of the lord.When it is due on the change of the tenant, it matters not whether that change is effected by the act of God, or by the tenant's own act. Whenever the tenancy is changed, a fine is payable.Those fines which are due to licenses by the lord, to empower the tenant to do certain acts, as to demise, etc., are rare. There must be a special custom to support such fine, for, by general custom, fines are due only on admissions.The admission fine is prima facie uncertain and arbitrary, or rather arbitrable, unless...
Procuration fee
Procuration fee, a sum of money or commission taken by scriveners on effecting loans of money. See 12 Anne, st. 2, c. 16, s. 2, repealed by 17 & 18 Vict. c. 90....
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