Recorder

A judicial officer of some cities, possessing generally the powers and authority of a judge. 3 Yeates (Pa.) 300; 4 Dall. (Pa.) 299. But see 1 Const. (S. C.) 45. The recorder in New York city was the chief judge of the criminal courts. There were recorders in various other cities in New York state, and also in the counties thereof, having various powers. See Rev. St. N. _Y. Anciently, "recorder" signified to recite or testify on recollection, as occasion might require, what had previously passed in court; and this was the duty of the judges, thence called "recordeurs." Steph. PL note 11. struments authorized by law to be recorded.

A judicial officer of some cities, possessing generally the powers and an authority of a judge. Respublica v. Dallas, 3 Yeates (Pa.) 300. See Egleston v. City Council, 1 Mill. Const. (S. C.) 45. Anciently, recorder signified to recite or testify on recollection, as occasion might require, what had previously passed in court; and this was the duty of the judges, thence called rccordeurs. Steph. PI. note 11. An officer appointed to make record or enrolment of deeds and other legal instruments authorized by law to be recorded. See Recording Acts; Record. In England, a judge of a borough court of quarter sessions. He is appointed by the crown on the recommendation of the home secretary. He must be a barrister of not less than five years standing and is ex officio a justice of the peace for the borough. or. He was required to be learned in the taw. See Vaux’s Recorder's Reports, Philadelphia, 1846.

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In old English law. A barrister or other person learned in the law, whom the mayor or other magistrate of any city or town corporate, having jurisdiction or a court of record within their precincts, associated to him for his better direction in matters of justice and proceedings according to law. Cowell. The name "recorder" is also given to a magistrate, in the judicial systems of some of the states, who has a criminal jurisdiction analogous to that of a police judge or other committing magistrate, and usually a limited civil jurisdiction, and sometimes authority conferred by statute in special classes of proceedings. Also an officer appointed to make record or enroiment of deeds and other legal instruments authorized by law to be recorded.

v. In Fr. In Norman law. To recite or testify on recollection what had previously passed in court This was the duty of the judges and other principal persons who presided at the placitum; thence called "recordeur8." Steph. PL, Append, note 1L

or, in his absence, the Courts of Conscience or ^record, established in London and of small debts; they are succeeded mostly abolished. 64. The Court was established under Elizabeth, cases concerning policies of don. Abolished in 1863, although Universities Courts were bridge; the (66.) Chancellor's sonal actions and minor oifences the (67.) Court of the Lord of treasons, felonies, and mayhems

1. The title of a class of judicial officers, having generally original criminal jurisdiction within a locality, together with statutory authority over various special proceedings. A recorder is so called, as Stephen explains, because to recite or testify on recollection what had previously passed in court was the duty of the judges and other principal persons who presided at the placitum, and thence in Norman phrase they were called recordeurs. The duties and powers of any judge of this class vary with the statute. In England, especially, a recorder is the principal legal officer of a city or borough. He is often a barrister or other person learned in the law, whom the mayor or other magistrate of any city or corporate town (having a jurisdiction, or a court of record within his precincts) does by the king's grant associate to him, for his better direction in the judicial proceedings of such court. Cowel. Thus the recorder of the city of London is practically the judge in the lord mayor's court of the city, although in theory the lord mayor and aldermen are the judges therein. He is appointed by the lord mayor and aldermen. Besides being judge of the lord mayor's court, he is one of the commissioners of the central criminal court. In some other cities and boroughs a recorder is appointed by the crown, under section 103 of the municipal corporations act (Stat. 5 & 6 Wm. IV. ch. 76, § 103), and is usually the judge of the court of quarter sessions, and of the borough court of record. See Brown; Mozley §• W. 2. A person, generally a public officer, charged with making and keeping official written memorials and transcripts of transactions; a register. Recordari facias loquelam. That of a writ to remove a replevin suit from an English county court to one of the superior courts, commanding the sheriff to cause the plaint to be recorded, and to have the record before the superior court. The name of the writ was adopted from this phrase.

1. A _ judicial officer of some cities, possessing generally the powers and authority ofa judge. 3 Yeates’s R. 300; 4 Dall. R. 299. Anciently, recorder signified to recite or testify on recollection as occasion might require what had previously in court, and this was the duty of the judges, thence called recordeurs. Steph. Plead. note 11.—2. An officer appointed to make record or enrolment of deeds and other legal instruments, authorised by law to be recorded.