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The purpose of a register is to declare the nationality of a vessel engaged in trade with foreign nations, and to enable her to assert that nationality wherever found.

or REGISTRAR. An officer authorized by law to keep a record called a "register" or "registry;" as, the register for the probate of wills.

REGISTRAR. An officer authorized by law to keep a record called a register or registry: as, the register for the probate of wills.

An officer authorised by law to keep a record called a "register" or "registry;" as the register for the probate of wills. A book containing a record of facts as they occur, kept by public authority; a register of births, marriages, and burials.

— Register in banhrnptcy. An officer of the couris of bankruptcy, under the earlier acts of congress in that behalf, having substantially the same powers and duties as the "referees in bankruptcy" under the act of 1898 (U. S. Comp. St 1901, p. 3418). See Referee.

— Register of deeds. The name given in some states to the officer whose duty is to record deeds, mortgages, and other instruments affecting realty in the official books provided and kept for that purpose ; more commonly calied "recorder of deeds."

— Register of land office. A federal officer appointed for each federal land district, to take charge of the local records and attend to the preliminary matters connected with the sale, pre-emption, or other disposal of the public lands within the district. See Rev. St. U. S. 2234 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1366).

— Register of patents. A book of patents, directed by St. 15 & 16 Viet, c. 83, § 34, passed in 1852, to be kept at the specification office, for public use. 2 Steph. Comm. 29, note t.

— Register of ships. A register kept by the collectors of customs, in which the names, ownership, and other facts relative to merchant vessels are required by law to be entered. This register is evidence of the nationality and privileges of an American ship. The certificate of such registration, given by the collector to the owner or master of the shin, is also called the ship's register." Rapni-je & Lawrence.

— Register of the treasury. An officer of the United States treasury, whose duty is to keep all accounts of the receipt and expenditure of public money and of debts due o or from the United States, to preserve adjusted accounts with vouchers and certificates, to record warrants drawn upon the treasury, to sign and issue government securities, and lake charge of the registry of vessels under United States laws. See Rev. St. U. S. §§ 812, 313 (In S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 183).

— Register of wills. An officer in some of the states, whose function is to record and preserve nil wills admitted to probate, to issue letters testamentary or of administration, to receive and file accounts of executors, etc., and generally to act as the clerk of the probate court.

— Register of writs. A book preserved in the English court of chancery, in which were entered the various forms of original and judicial writs.

To record; to enter formally and for the purpose of preservation.

1, V. To enter officially in proper form, or in the appropriate book or books. 3, n. A book kept by publio authority; a record. 3, n. A keeper of records; a recorder; a registrar: as, a register in bankruptcy, of public lands, of vessels, of wills. Registrant. A person who complies with a law requiring a registration; as, of a trade-mark, q. v. Registration. Recording, in full or in substance, and in due form of law, in an official book or register. The act of making a list, catalogue, schedule, or register. 2 May not intend a literal copying or recording, but entering in a book a statement or menjorandum of facts to serve as memorials or evidence; as, in a statute requiring the certificate of a transfer of stock to be registered on the books of the company which. issued the stock.' Registry. 1. The act of recording; registration. 2. The system of recording transactions as required by law; also, the place where recorded documents are kept. Registry of deeds.- The object is to impart to parties dealing with property information respecting its transfers and incumbrances, and thus to protect them from prior secret conveyances and liens. It is to the registry, therefore, that purchasers, or others desiring to ascertain the condition of the property, must look; and, if not otherwise informed, they can rely upon the knowledge there obtained. But if they have notice of the existence of an unregistered conveyance, they cannot complain that they are prejudiced by the want of registry. The general doctrine is that knowledge of an existing conveyance or ' See R. S., and St. L., Index, " Refunds." '' Appointment of Supervisors of Election, 1 F. R. mortgage, in legal effect, is equivalent to notice by the registry. 1 Eegisti-y of vessels. The purpose is to declare the nationality of vessels engaged in trade with foreign countries, and to enable these vessels to assert that nationality. The purpose of an " enrollment " is to evidence the national character of vessels engaged in the coasting trade or home trafi Hc and to enable them to procure a coasting license. Neither " registry " nor "record" is usually applied to an enrollment. This distriction is observed throughout the legislation of Congress. The general statute on the subject of registry is the act of December 31, 1792; the general statute on enrollment, the act of February 18, 1793.' JRegistry of voters. In statutes relating to elections, " registered voters " uniformly refers to persons whose names are placed upon the registration books provided by law as the sole record or memorial of the duly qualified voters.' " Eegistration," in its ordinary, generic sense, when applied to voters, means any list, register, or schedule containing names, the being on which list, register, or schedule constitutes a prerequisite to voting.* See Record; Tkade-mark.

V. To enter in official permanent books or form; to record. Register, n.: a record. Register, n.; Registrar: one whose office it is to enter documents, occurrences, and transactions in the books appropriated for the purpose; a recorder, in the sense of a keeper of records. Registration: recording; inserting in an official register. Registry: the system of official books or records in which transactions of a given class are by law entered; also, the office in which these books are written and kept. Registry is also used as equivalent to registration; but this is not to be approved. Register, is a book wherein, things are registered, for the preservation of the same; thus a parish register is that book wherein the baptisms, marriages, and burials are registered in the respective parishes; there is also a book wherein are entered the various forms of original and judicial writs, which is termed the register of writs. Co. Litt. 159; Cowel. Register of patents. A book of patents, directed by Stat. 15 & 16 Vict. ch. 8:3, § 34, passed in 1852, to be kept at the specification office, for public use. 2 Steph. Com. 29, note (t). Register of vessels.. By the shipping laws of congress, vessels of our merchant service must be registered by the col- This register must show the ownership of the vessel and other material facts, and is evidence of her commercial rights and privileges as an American vessel. A certificate issued by the collector, setting forth the contents of this register, as respects anyparticular vessel, and carried with the ship on her voyage, or used as a muniment of title in selling the vessel, is often, perhaps not quite properly, called the vessel's register. Registrar. The English term for an officer corresponding in nature of his duties to what is generally called in this country a register {q. u.); an officer who has the keeping of a registry. There are several officers of this name connected with the administration of English jurisprudence. The principal are the registrars of the courts of chancery and bankruptcy, and the registrars of births, deaths, and marriages. The registrar of the court of chancery is an officer with whom, in certain cases, the defendants are compelled to enter their appearances; and by him the decrees of the court are drawn up, signed, and passed. Analogous duties are imposed upon the registrars of the court of bankruptcy, by the bankruptcy act. The registrars of births, deaths, and marriages are officers appointed under the 6 & 7 Wm. IV. ch. 86, 7 Wm. IV. & 1 Vict. ch. 22, and 3 & 4 Vict. ch. 92, for the purpose of keeping in their respective districts an exact register of every birth, death, and marriage which may take place therein. The registrars of each union are subjected to the supervision of their superintendent registrar, and these again are subject to the authority of a superior officer appointed under the great seal, and holding office during the pleasure of the crown, called the " registrai'-genei-al of births, deaths, and marriages in England." There are also the registrar of attorneys and solicitors (or, as he is called since the judicature acts, the registrar of solicitors), whose duty it is to keep an alphabetical list or roll of attorneys and solicitors, and to issue certificates to persons who have been duly admitted board of trade), whose business it is to certify when a company is incorporated, &c.; the registrar of a county court, who is an officer appointed by the judge, subject to the approval of the lord chancellor; the deputy-registrar of a county court, who is an officer appointed by the registrar, subject to the approval of the judge; the registrar of friendly societies, an officer whose duty it is to examine the rules of friendly societies, and, if he find them conformable to law, to certify them as being so; the registrar of the privy council, whose duty it is to summon the members of the judicial committee when their attendance is required, and to transact other business relating to the privy council; the registrar-general of shipping and seamen; and probably others. See Steph. Com.; Brown. Registrar's book. A book containing an authentic copy of every decree made by the English court of chancery. It is generally cited as Reg. Lib. Up to the year 1833, every decree was prefaced by a recital of the pleadings; and the whole formed, accordingly, a report of the case, to which appeal may be made when a doubt arises on the accuracy of the report cited from a printed volume. Since that date, the entry shows nothing but what order was made, and on what evidence it was founded. At the beginning of every Michaelmas term (or sittings), two books are provided for the entry of the decrees to be pronounced during the year then commencing, — one to contain those to be pronounced in causes where the first letter of the surname of the first plaintiS is found in the earlier half of the alphabet, and the other to contain those belonging to the other half. Any particular decree is quoted by the folio of the book in which it is found; thus, an order made in the ease of Powell v. Matthews is found m Reg. Lib. 1854, f. 1423, that is to say, upon the 1423d folio of the second volume of the annual book, commencing in November, 1854. Hunt Eq. Pt. I. ch. 6, § 2. Registration. Recording; inserting in an official register. The uses of the word vary a little in shade of meaning. Registration of matters of fact or occurrences is the entry of them in the official books, such as the registry of births, marriages, or deaths. Registration of documents is generally understood to mean transcribing it in the official record; but may, in special sense or use, signify only receivwords, a system of registration might be framed on the plan of putting the original on file instead of transcribing it, without making a copy of it, yet do no violence to the meaning of the term. Eegistration of a vessel means noting the facts of her character and ownership. Registration of companies, under English law, is putting a newly formed company on the official list of joint-stock or public companies, so as to secure the privileges and immunities which the law allows to such companies; and corresponds to the American expression of incorporating under a general act. Registry, consists of an entry in a book kept by the proper public authority. United States V. Castillero, 2 Black, 17. Registry of deeds. The system or organized mode of keeping a public record of deeds, mortgages, and other instruments afiecting title to real property. See Recording Acts. By certain acts of parliament, all deeds and conveyances (with some exceptions) which affect lands in the counties of Middlesex and York are required to be registered; that is, an abstract of their substance is required to be entered in a register kept for that purpose. It has been proposed to make the registration of titles to land universal. Brown, Registry la-ws. An expression equivalent to " recording acts," q. v.

evidence. A book containing a record of facts as they occur, kept by public authority; a register of births, marriages and burials. Although not originally intended for the purposes of evidence, public registers are in general admissible to prove the facts to which they relate. In Pennsylvania, the registry of births, &c. made by any religious society in the stafe, is evidence by act of Assembly, but it must be proved as at common law. 6 Binn. R. 416. A copy of the register of births and deaths of the Society of Friendsin England, proved before the lord mayor of London by an ez parte affidavit, was allowed to be given in evidence to prove the death of a person; 1 Dall. 2; anda copy of a parish register in Barbadoes, certified to be a true copy by the rector, proved by the oath of a witness, taken before the deputy secretary of the island and notary public, under his hand and seal, was held admissible to prove pedigree; the hand-writing and office of the secretary being proved. 10 Serg. & Rawle, 383. In North Carolina, a parish register of births, mayriages and deaths, kept pursuant to the statute of that state, is evidence of pedhgree. 2 Murphey’s R. 47. - In Connecticut, a parish register has been received in evidence. 2 Root, R. 99.