Six Clerks
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
Officers formerly attached to the English court of chancery, whose duties consisted in receiving and filing all bills, answers, replications, and other records, in all causes on the equity side of the court. They signed all copies of pleadings made by the sworn clerks and waiting clerks, after seeing that the originals were regularly filed. They examined and signed dockets of decrees and dismissions prepared for enrolment, and the care of all records in their office, which remained in their studies for six terms, for the sworn clerks and waiting clerks to resort to without fee, &c. But the office was abolished in 184:2, by Stat. 5 & 6 Vict. ch. 103, § 1, and their functions were transferred to the record and writ clerks.
See Brown.