REMEMBRANCER
, the name originally of certain subordinate See also:officers of the See also:English See also:Exchequer
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The See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office itself is of See also:great antiquity, the holder having been termed remembrancer, memorator, rememorator, registrar, keeper of the See also:register, despatcher of business (Maddox, See also:History of the Exchequer)
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There were at one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time three clerks of the remembrance, styled See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's remembrancer, See also:lord treasurer's remembrancer and remembrancer of first-fruits
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The latter two offices have become See also:extinct, that of remembrancer of first-fruits by the diversion of the fund (See also:Queen See also:Anne's See also:Bounty See also:Act 1838), and that of lord treasurer's remembrancer on being merged in the office of king's remembrancer (1833)
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By the Queen's Remembrancer Act 1859 the office ceased to exist separately, and the queen's remembrancer was required to be a See also:master of the See also:court of exchequer
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The Judicature Act 1873, s
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77, attached the office to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court of Judicature (Officers) Act 1879 transferred it to the central office of the Supreme Court
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By s
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8 the king's remembrancer is a master of the Supreme Court, and the office is usually filled by the See also:senior master
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The king's remembrancer See also:department of the central office is now amalgamated with the judgments and married See also:women's acknowledgments department
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The king'sremembrancer still assists at certain ceremonial functions—See also:relics of the former importance of the office—such as the nomination of sheriffs, the See also:- SWEARING (O. Eng. swerian, to swear, originally to speak aloud, cf. andswerian, to answer, Ger. schworen, Dan. svaerge, &c., all from root sorer-, to make a sound, cf. " swarm," properly the buzzing of bees, Lat. susurrus)
swearing-in of the lord See also:mayor of See also:London, the trial of the See also:pyx and the acknowledgments of See also:homage for See also:crown lands
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Other duties are set out in the Second See also:Report of the Legal Departments See also:Commission, 1894
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" Remembrancer " is also the See also:title of an See also:official of the See also:corporation of the See also:city of London, whose See also:principal See also:duty is to represent that See also:body before See also:parliamentary committees and at See also:council and See also:treasury boards
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