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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In English practice. Officers of the court of chancery, who received and filed all bllls, answers, replications, and other papers, signed office copies of pleadings, examined and signed dockets of decrees, etc., and had the care of all records in their office.

Holthouse; 3 Bl. Comm. 443.

They were abolished by St 5 Viet c.

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