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 mf erior ofdcers were supplied by the lower clergy, which occasioned theh' successors to be denominated " clerks." » 2. A person employed to keep records; as, a clerk of a court. Clerk of courts. The chief clerk of the courts of quarter sessions and oyer and terminer. (Penn.) See Prothonotary; Minutes, 1. ' See E. S. §§ 1197, 4200, 4207.

2 Nat. Exchange Bank v. Nat. Bank of North America, 132 Mass. 148 (1882). a 4 Bl. Cora. 356. 4 See R. S. § 5329; 1 Bish. Cr. L. § 936; 1 Chitty, Cr. Hist. Cr. L. Eng. 469-72.

Clerical error.

See Eeroe, 3 (1); Record, 3, Judicial. 3.

A person employed to keep minutes, accounts, and the like. A person, employed in an office, public or private, for keeping records, whose business is to write or register in proper form the transactions of the tribunal or body to which be belongs.! An employee who attends to sales no further than delivering goods manufaiptm-ed, and keeping a memorandum of the delivery for a temporary purpose, is not a " clerk " within the meaning of the rule which requires proof of the original entries.''

See Agent; Servant, 8; Entky; II, 1.