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Justice-Clerk Sc. Law.
[For Justice's Clerk.]
(Since 1681, Lord Justice-Clerk.) The vice-president of the Scotch Court of Justiciary, presiding also over the Outer House or Second Division of the Court of Session. Hence Justice-Clerkship.
His title is derived from the fact that he was originally the Clerk of the Justice-General, whose legal duties he eventually entirely performed.
1424Sc. Acts Jas. I (1597) §20 The Iustice Clerk be the inditement, sall gar sik trespassoures be corrected befoir the Iustice, and punished as said is. c1575Balfour's Practicks (1754) 565 Item, The Justice-clerk sall have for ilk persoun that is clengit be ane assise..iiij.d. 1737J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. ii. iv. 376 Lord Justice-Clerk..he is the Second Person in the Justice-Court, being next to the Justice-General; but now he is one of the Officers of State, though the Justice-General be none. 1861W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 541 The Lord-Justice-Clerk in absence of the Lord-Justice-General, is the presiding judge in the Court of Justiciary... Prior to 1641 the Justice-Clerk was not one of the judges..but merely the clerk and assessor of Court. |