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Shire Clerk

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

He that keeps the county court. SHIRE GEMOT (spelled also, scire gemote, sew gemot, seyre gemote, shire mote; from the Saxon seir or scyre, county, shire, and gemote, a court, an assembly). The Saxon county court. It was held twice a year before the bishop and alderman of the shire, and was the principal court. Spelman. "Gemotum;" Cunningham, "Shire;" Crabb, Hist. Eng. Law, 28.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

The clerk of an English county court.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

He that keeps the county court. -Shire-man, or Scvre-man. Before the Conquest, the judge of the county, by whom trials for land, etc., were determined. Tomlins; Mozley & Whitley.

Defined under Shire in Black's Law Dictionary.