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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 525 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOURNAL (through Fr. from See also:late See also:Lat. diurnalis, daily)  , a daily See also:record of events or business . A private See also:journal is usually an elaborated See also:diary . When applied to a newspaper or other periodical the word is strictly used of one published each See also:day; but any publication issued at stated intervals, such as a See also:magazine or the record of the transactions of a learned society, is commonly called a journal . The word " journalist " for one whose business is See also:writing for the public See also:press (see See also:NEWSPAPERS) seems to be as old as the end of the 17th See also:century . " Journal " is particularly applied to the record, day by day, of the business and proceedings of a public See also:body . The See also:journals of the See also:British houses of See also:parliament contain an See also:official record of the business transacted day by day in either See also:house . The record does not take See also:note of speeches, though some of the earlier volumes contain references to them . The journals are a lengthened See also:account written from the " votes and proceedings " (in the House of Lords called " minutes of the proceedings "), made day by day by the assistant clerks, and printed on the responsibility of the clerk to the house, after submission to the " sub-See also:committee on the journals." In the See also:Commons the journal is passed by the See also:Speaker before publication . The journals of the House of Commons begin in the first See also:year of the reign of See also:Edward VI . (1547), and are See also:complete, except for a See also:short See also:interval under See also:Elizabeth . Those of the House of Lords date from the first year of See also:Henry VIII . (15og) .

Before that date the proceedings in parliament were entered in the rolls of parliament, which extend from 1278 to 1503 . The journals of the Lords are " records " in the judicial sense, those of the Commons are not (see See also:

Erskine May, See also:Parliamentary Practice, 1906, pp . 201-202) . The See also:term " journal " is used, in business, for a See also:book in which an account of transactions is kept previous to a See also:transfer to the See also:ledger (see BOOK-KEEPING), and also as an See also:equivalent to a See also:ship's See also:log, as a record of the daily run, observations, See also:weather changes, &c . In See also:mining, a journal is a record describing the various strata passed through in sinking a See also:shaft . A particular use of the word is that, in machinery, for the parts of a shaft which are in contact with the See also:bearings; the origin of this meaning, which is firmly established, has not been explained .

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