Sergeant

Formerly in England an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred also an officer whose duty was to attend on the king and on the lord high steward in court to arrest traitors and other offenders He is now called sergeant at arms and two of these officers by allowance of the sovereign attend on the houses of Parliament one for each house to execute their commands and another attends the Court Chancery...

Cobia

An oceanic fish of large size Elacate canada the crabeater called also bonito cubbyyew coalfish and sergeant fish...

Corporal

A noncommissioned officer next below a sergeant In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry He places and relieves sentinels...

VerbarHavildar

In the British Indian armies a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers corresponding to a sergeant...

Sergeancy

The office of a sergeant sergeantship...

Sergeantship

The office of sergeant...

Serjeant

See Sergeant Sergeantcy etc...

Call of the House

Call of the House, an imperative summons sent to every member of the House of Commons, on some particular occasion, when the presence of the whole House is deemed necessary. Members not attending when their names are called are reported as defaulters, and ordered to attend on another day, when, if they still be absent, and no excuse offered, they may be committed to the custody of the sergeant-at-arms. No such call has been enforced since 1836, when there was a call on Mr. Whittle Harvey's Motion on the Pension List. Since then calls have been ordered, but afterwards discharged or negatived. Motions for a call were negatived on July, 10, 1855, and March 23, 1882, May's Parl. Pr. 11th Edn., p. 182....

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...

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