Clerk
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In ecclesiastical law
A person in holy orders; a clergyman; an individual attached to the ecclesiastical state, and who has the clerical tonsure.
See 4 Bl. Comm. 366, 367.
In practice
A person employed in a public office, or as an officer of a court, whose duty is to keep records or accounts. In commercial law. A person employed by a merchant, or in a mercantile establishment, as a salesman, book-keeper, accountant, amanuensis, etc., invested with more or less authority in the administration of some branch or department of the business, while the principal himself superintends the whole.