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BAILIFF |
Court official |
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CLERK |
Court official |
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PROSECUTOR |
Court official |
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LINESMAN |
Court official |
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JUDGE |
Court official |
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USHER |
Court official |
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OFFICIALTY |
The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an
official. |
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DIPLOMATIC |
A minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign
court; a diplomatist. |
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RECORD |
An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the
proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record. |
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PRESENTMENT |
The official notice (formerly required to be given in
court) of the surrender of a copyhold estate. |
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LEGATION |
The place of business or official residence of a
diplomatic minister at a foreign court or seat of government. |
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AUTHORITY |
A precedent; a decision of a court, an official
declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as
a precedent. |
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DISAPPROVE |
To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to
decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court-martial was
disapproved by the commander in chief. |
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CHAMBER |
A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room
or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done
out of court. |
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BLACK BOOK |
A book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a
description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement
of the revenues of the crown, etc. |
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SIT |
To hold a session; to be in session for official business;
-- said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in
January; the aldermen sit to-night. |
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PRESENT |
To lay before a public body, or an official, for
consideration, as before a legislature, a court of judicature, a
corporation, etc.; as, to pre... |
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VENALITY |
...le;
mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services, for money
or reward; as, the venality of a corrupt court; the venality of an
... |
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NUNCIO |
The permanent official representative of the pope at a
foreign court or seat of government. Distinguished from a legate a
latere, whose mission... |
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ABBREVIATOR |
One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal
court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition,
or reply of the p... |
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REPORT |
...ments to Congress, of a master in chancery to the court, of
committees to a legislative body, and the like. ... |
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PROBATE |
Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent
officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the
last will and tes... |