Secondary
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
An officer of the court of king's bench and common pleas, so called because he was second or next to the chief officer. The secondaries of these courts were abolished by 7 Wm. IV. & 1 Vict, ch.
30 (1 Arch. Pr. 11).
But at the present day there is a law officer in the city of London who bears the name of secondary.
Brown.