Clericus
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat.
In old English law
A clergyman, a clerk, or priest; a person in holy orders. Legit ut clericus; he reads like a clerk.
Dyer, 205.
See Clerk, Nullus clericus nisi causidicus; there is no clerk that is not an advocate. Will, Malmsb, de Gest. Reg. lib.
4, cited 1 Bl. Com, \1.
A secular priest, as distinguished from a religious or regular.
Kennett*8 Par, Ant, 171. Cowell.
A clerk or person who used his pen in any courts or otherwise. See Clerk,