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Accountant in bankruptcy

duties discharged by the Chief Registrar. The funds in the Bank of England standing in his name were transferred (upon certain conditions) to the National Debt Commissioners, by 32 & 33 Vict. C. 91. See BANKRUPTCY.

Accountant-General, or Accomptant-General

was abolished by the (English) Chancery Funds Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. C. 44), and the duties transferred to the Paymaster-General. See (English) Sup. Court of Judicature (Funds) Act, 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. C. 29).

Administrative business

of the Court, which means hostile litigation between parties. Formerly also certain business transacted at Quarter Sessions now transferred to County Councils by s. 3 of the Local Government Act, 1888.

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Adscripti vel adscriptitii gleb'

Adscripti vel adscriptitii gleb', a class of slaves, among the Romans, attached to and transferred along with the land which they cultivated.

Advocate

at an English university. The jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts in matters matrimonial and testamentary was in 1857 transferred to the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes and the Court of Probate respectively. It is now vested

Advocates, Faculty of

the Lord Justice-General. They do not sit within the Bar. The Library of the Faculty was in 1925 transferred to the nation and is now the National Library of Scotland.

Affairs of the Church

Affairs of the Church. These, including the distribution of offertories and other collections made in any church, were transferred by the (English) Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5), No. 1, to the

Affidavit Office in Chancery

Office in Chancery, abolished by 15 & 16 Vict. c. 87, ss. 27 and 29, and its duties transferred to the Clerks of Records and Writs.

Agriculture and Fisheries, Ministry of

the diseases of animals, and of the Land Commissioners under the Copyhold, Inclosure and Tithe Acts, etc., had transferred to it by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Act, 1903, the powers of the Board of Trade

Alienor

Alienor, one who transfers property.

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