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单词 crown office
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Crown Officen.

Brit. /ˈkraʊn ˌɒfɪs/, U.S. /ˈkraʊn ˌɔfəs/, /ˈkraʊn ˌɑfəs/
Forms: see crown n. and office n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: crown n., office n.
Etymology: < crown n. + office n.
1.
a. Originally: the office responsible for transacting, at certain stages, the business of the Crown side (see Crown side n. at crown n. Compounds 3a) of the King's (or Queen's) Bench. Later: a department of the Central Office of the High Court of Justice. Also: an office of the Supreme Court of England and Wales responsible for listing cases to be tried in the High Court, in 2000 renamed the Administrative Court Office. Now historical.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > offices attached to courts > to High Court
Crown Officec1595
c1595 First Pt. Reign Richard II (1929) 76 Antient libertyes recorded & in Rowld in the kings crowne office wher in the men of kent are cleere dischargd.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 700 A Clarke or Officer in the Kings Bench, whose function is to frame..Indictments against..offenders..called Clarke of the Crowne office.
1736 C. Ford in Swift's Lett. (1768) IV. 161 I indicted him in the crown-office, the terror of the low people.
1836 J. Chitty Pract. of Law (ed. 2) III. i. v. i. 37 The Master of the Crown Office transacts a considerable portion of business on the crown or criminal side of the Court.
1912 F. W. Hackwood W. Hone ix. 151 He wrote from his prison to the Crown Office at the same time to protest against the jurors nominated to try his issue.
1991 P. Murphy & E. Stocksdale Blackstone's Criminal Pract. 1477 Having read the draft(s), the judge states and signs a case... It is sent to the appellant, who lodges it in the Crown Office.
b. In Scotland: the central administrative and policy-making headquarters of the prosecution service.
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1889 Sc. Law Rev. & Sheriff Court Rep. 5 202 In Scotland the Crown office, i.e., the Lord Advocate, acting through the Advocates-Depute, determines how an accused person shall be tried.
1927 W. M. Gloag & R. C. Henderson Introd. Law Scotl. 594 Upon the commission of any serious crime, it is the invariable practice for the procurator-fiscal of the district—acting partly as the sheriff's official, partly in connection with the Crown Office—to take a precognition of the facts.
2011 J. O. Savino & B. E. Turvey Rape Investig. Handbk. (ed. 2) p. xxxii In 2010, he examined a series of sexual homicides for the solicitor-general of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service..in Edinburgh, Scotland.
2. The office, originally part of the court of Chancery, responsible for supervising the application of the Great Seal. It is presided over by the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery.The Crown Office absorbed other Chancery offices which supervised the sealing of documents, e.g. the Petty Bag office. Its additional functions are now limited to formal matters in connection with elections.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > offices attached to courts > to Chancery
Petty Bag1393
Crown Office1669
1669 S. Pepys Diary 12 Mar. (1976) IX. 480 To the Crowne Office, where we..did take short notes of the Dockets.
1710 Ld. Godolphin Let. 19 Apr. in H. L. Snyder Marlborough–Godolphin Corr. (1975) III. 1478 I have directed him to search the crown office for the entry of your sister's pattent, as Countess of Bantry. If it never did pass under the Great Seal, it will bee of noe validity to her.
1763 R. Burn Eccl. Law I. 368 Neither of those grants could be made, in prejudice of a subsisting patentee of the crown office.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. viii. 111 All elections..take place by virtue of writs issued out of the Crown-office in Chancery.
1892 W. R. Anson Law & Custom of Constit. II. iv. ii. §2. 149 It is in the Crown Office in Chancery that the Great Seal is, for most purposes, affixed.
1908 A. L. Lowell Govt. Eng. I. vi. 131 He [sc. the Lord Chancellor] is, for example, at the head of the Crown Office in Chancery. This, as the place where the Great Seal is affixed, is legally and formally, although not politically, important.
1999 C. Pilkington Brit. Constit. 45/1 In England the Crown Office has become a very minor law office within the Lord Chancellor's department, ensuring that important documents issued under the Great Seal of the Realm are dealt with correctly.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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