Register

V. To enter in official permanent books or form; to record. Register, n.: a record. Register, n.; Registrar: one whose office it is to enter documents, occurrences, and transactions in the books appropriated for the purpose; a recorder, in the sense of a keeper of records. Registration: recording; inserting in an official register. Registry: the system of official books or records in which transactions of a given class are by law entered; also, the office in which these books are written and kept. Registry is also used as equivalent to registration; but this is not to be approved. Register, is a book wherein, things are registered, for the preservation of the same; thus a parish register is that book wherein the baptisms, marriages, and burials are registered in the respective parishes; there is also a book wherein are entered the various forms of original and judicial writs, which is termed the register of writs.

Co. Litt. 159; Cowel. Register of patents. A book of patents, directed by Stat. 15 & 16 Vict. ch.

8:3, § 34, passed in 1852, to be kept at the specification office, for public use.

2 Steph. Com. 29, note (t).

Register of vessels.. By the shipping laws of congress, vessels of our merchant service must be registered by the col- This register must show the ownership of the vessel and other material facts, and is evidence of her commercial rights and privileges as an American vessel. A certificate issued by the collector, setting forth the contents of this register, as respects anyparticular vessel, and carried with the ship on her voyage, or used as a muniment of title in selling the vessel, is often, perhaps not quite properly, called the vessel's register.

Registrar.

The English term for an officer corresponding in nature of his duties to what is generally called in this country a register {q. u.); an officer who has the keeping of a registry. There are several officers of this name connected with the administration of English jurisprudence. The principal are the registrars of the courts of chancery and bankruptcy, and the registrars of births, deaths, and marriages. The registrar of the court of chancery is an officer with whom, in certain cases, the defendants are compelled to enter their appearances; and by him the decrees of the court are drawn up, signed, and passed. Analogous duties are imposed upon the registrars of the court of bankruptcy, by the bankruptcy act. The registrars of births, deaths, and marriages are officers appointed under the 6 & 7 Wm. IV. ch.

86, 7 Wm. IV. & 1 Vict. ch. 22, and 3 & 4 Vict. ch.

92, for the purpose of keeping in their respective districts an exact register of every birth, death, and marriage which may take place therein. The registrars of each union are subjected to the supervision of their superintendent registrar, and these again are subject to the authority of a superior officer appointed under the great seal, and holding office during the pleasure of the crown, called the " registrai'-genei-al of births, deaths, and marriages in England." There are also the registrar of attorneys and solicitors (or, as he is called since the judicature acts, the registrar of solicitors), whose duty it is to keep an alphabetical list or roll of attorneys and solicitors, and to issue certificates to persons who have been duly admitted board of trade), whose business it is to certify when a company is incorporated, &c.; the registrar of a county court, who is an officer appointed by the judge, subject to the approval of the lord chancellor; the deputy-registrar of a county court, who is an officer appointed by the registrar, subject to the approval of the judge; the registrar of friendly societies, an officer whose duty it is to examine the rules of friendly societies, and, if he find them conformable to law, to certify them as being so; the registrar of the privy council, whose duty it is to summon the members of the judicial committee when their attendance is required, and to transact other business relating to the privy council; the registrar-general of shipping and seamen; and probably others. See Steph. Com.; Brown.

Registrar's book

A book containing an authentic copy of every decree made by the English court of chancery. It is generally cited as Reg. Lib. Up to the year 1833, every decree was prefaced by a recital of the pleadings; and the whole formed, accordingly, a report of the case, to which appeal may be made when a doubt arises on the accuracy of the report cited from a printed volume. Since that date, the entry shows nothing but what order was made, and on what evidence it was founded. At the beginning of every Michaelmas term (or sittings), two books are provided for the entry of the decrees to be pronounced during the year then commencing, — one to contain those to be pronounced in causes where the first letter of the surname of the first plaintiS is found in the earlier half of the alphabet, and the other to contain those belonging to the other half. Any particular decree is quoted by the folio of the book in which it is found; thus, an order made in the ease of Powell v. Matthews is found m Reg. Lib. 1854, f. 1423, that is to say, upon the 1423d folio of the second volume of the annual book, commencing in November, 1854. Hunt Eq. Pt. I. ch.

6, § 2. Registration.

Recording; inserting in an official register. The uses of the word vary a little in shade of meaning. Registration of matters of fact or occurrences is the entry of them in the official books, such as the registry of births, marriages, or deaths. Registration of documents is generally understood to mean transcribing it in the official record; but may, in special sense or use, signify only receivwords, a system of registration might be framed on the plan of putting the original on file instead of transcribing it, without making a copy of it, yet do no violence to the meaning of the term. Eegistration of a vessel means noting the facts of her character and ownership. Registration of companies, under English law, is putting a newly formed company on the official list of joint-stock or public companies, so as to secure the privileges and immunities which the law allows to such companies; and corresponds to the American expression of incorporating under a general act. Registry, consists of an entry in a book kept by the proper public authority.

United States V. Castillero, 2 Black, 17.

Registry of deeds. The system or organized mode of keeping a public record of deeds, mortgages, and other instruments afiecting title to real property. See Recording Acts. By certain acts of parliament, all deeds and conveyances (with some exceptions) which affect lands in the counties of Middlesex and York are required to be registered; that is, an abstract of their substance is required to be entered in a register kept for that purpose. It has been proposed to make the registration of titles to land universal. Brown, Registry la-ws. An expression equivalent to " recording acts," q. v.