| 单词 | examiner in chancery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasExaminer in Chancery b. spec. Originally (more fully Examiner in Chancery and variants): an officer of a court of equity who takes down in writing witnesses' testimonies (now historical and rare). In later use: a person appointed to take down in writing depositions made out of court, esp. by witnesses unable to attend in person. (Now the usual legal sense.) ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > other officers of specific courts alderman1275 steward of the manor1303 Queen's (also King's) Proctor?a1425 remembrancer1451 augmentationer1550 associate1552 procurator-fiscal1564 proctor-fiscal1565 chafer1587 custos brevium1589 examiner1594 chafe-wax1607 exceptor1728 procurator general1740 Marshal of the (Court of) Admiralty1769 Pundit of the Supreme Court1827 1594 W. West Three Treat. 2nd Pt. Symbolæogr. sig. C6 The parties being so at issue, they either examine their witnesses before the examiners of the Chauncerie in court, or doe procure a commission, ad examinand' test'. 1650 Proposalls conc. Chancery 23 The Regulating of the Fees and Officers of the Examiners Office,..the Cursistors Office, and all the other Offices belonging to the said Court of Chancery. 1660 M. Carter Honor Rediviuus 247 The Ghostly Fathers or Confessors were examiners in Chancery, as men held most conscionable, and thereupon fittest for that function. 1715 W. Bohun Cursus Cancellariæ ii. 34 The Oath of the Examiners in Chancery is thus, [etc.]. 1792 N.-Y. Directory 179 Officers in Chancery. Edward Dunscomb, Examiner. 1835 A. W. Young Introd. to Sci. of Govt. & Compend of Constit. & Statutory Law 266 These proceedings are had before an examiner in chancery, who transmits them, with all the testimony, to the vice chancellor for adjudication. 1851 Acts Gen. Assembly Kentucky Nov. 1850 I. 188 The fee..shall be one dollar for each deposition, and five cents per mile for each mile that an examiner may have to travel in going to and returning from the place of the taking. 1911 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Feb. 473/1 Lady Northwick, who was unable to leave her house, had made a deposition before an examiner. 1957 ABA Jrnl. May 418/1 S. C. Houghton, Examiner in Chancery, was directed to take testimony. 2012 C. McGourlay Evid. Statutes 2011–12 366 A deposition must..be signed by the examiner. < as lemmas |
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