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clerk

1. A member of the clergy. The clergy, as they engrossed almost every other branch of learning, were remarkable for their study of the law. The judges were usually created out of the sacred order, and all the inferior officers were supplied by the lower clergy, which occasioned their successors to be dominated "clerks". 2. A person employed to keep records; as, a clerk of the court.

Source : William C. Anderson, A Dictionary of Law (1893)

Language : English

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