Central Office

The central office of the supreme court of judicature in England is the office established in pursuance of the recommendation of the legal department's commission (2d Rep. 23, 47) in order to consolidate the offices of the masters and associates of the common-law divisions, the crown office of the queen's bench division, the record and writ clerk's report, and enrollment offices of the chancery division, and a few others. Judicature Act 1879, § 4 et seq. The central office is divided into the following departments, and the business and staff of the office are distributed accordingly (Rules of Court Dec. 1879, April, 1880): (1) Writ, appearance, and judgment; (2) summons and order, for the common-law divisions only; (3) filing and record, including the old chancery report office; (4) taxing, for the common-law divisions only; (5) enrollment; (6) judgments, for the registry of judgments, executions, etc.; (7) bills of sale; (8) married women's acknowledgments; (9) queen's remembrancer; (10) crown office; and (11) associates. CENTUMVIRl (Lat. one hundred men). The name of a body of Roman judges. Their exact number was one hundred and five, there being selected three from each of the thirty-five tribes comprising all the citizens of Rome. They constituted, for ordinary purposes, four tribunals, but some cases (called centumvvrales causas) required the judgment of all the judges. 3 Bl. Comm. 515.