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
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.