COURT CLERK

  

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COURT CLERK

Specialty Definition: COURT CLERK

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Occupations

Performs clerical duties in court of law: Prepares docket or calendar of cases to be called, using typewriter. Examines legal documents submitted to court for adherence to law or court procedures, prepares case folders, and posts, files, or routes documents. Explains procedures or forms to parties in case. Secures information for judges, and contacts witnesses, attorneys, and litigants to obtain information for court, and instructs parties when to appear in court. Notifies district attorney's office of cases prosecuted by district attorney. Administers oath to witnesses. Records minutes of court proceedings, using stenotype machine or shorthand, and transcribes testimony, using typewriter. Records case disposition, court orders, and arrangement for payment of court fees. Collects court fees or fines and records amounts collected. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: COURT CLERK

Specialty definitions using "COURT CLERK": bail bonding agent, BONDING AGENTCHILD SUPPORT OFFICERlaw clerk, legal aidPROCESS SERVER. (references)

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Commercial Usage: COURT CLERK

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Books

  • The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in Fdr's Washington (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: COURT CLERK

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Tanzania

In June the authorities arrested a magistrate and court clerk in Mtwara for corruption. (references)

Congo

There reportedly was no known action taken against members of the security forces responsible for torturing, beating, or otherwise abusing the persons in the following 1999 cases: The October case of Pascal Kusehuka, secretary general of the PALU opposition party for Bandundu Province; the September case of human rights NGO activist Wetemwani Katembo Merikas; the September case of Francois Mpoyi Mukandu, the legal advisor of the governor of Eastern Kasai Province, Marcel Mpuanga Mindu, who also was an attorney, and Ditutu bin Bwebwe, a court clerk; the July case of Professor Kambaj Wa Kambaji; the July case of Jean Marie Kashils of the Agence Congolaise de Presse and Bienvenu Tshiela of Kasai Horizon Radio Television; the June case of the owner of a dugout canoe known as Motinga; the June case of journalists for the daily newspaper Tempete des Tropiques; the May case of Colonel Ndoma Moteke; the May case of Christian Badibangi, president of the opposition party Union Socialist Congolaise; the May case of eight members of the opposition Parti Lumumbiste Unifie (PALU) party; the April case of Lambert Edimba; the March case of a journalist; the March case of two female money changers; the February case of Professor Tshibangu Kalala; the February case of Luyinumu Lelo Koko and Jonas Ndoko; the February case of Toussaint Muhavu Shankulu; the January case of newspaper publisher Thierry Kyalumba; and the January case of human rights activists Christophe Bintu and Bienvenu Kasole. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COURT CLERK

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

circuit court clerk

98
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COURT CLERK

Language Translations for "COURT CLERK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

greffier-juriste (court registrar, court reporter, secretary of the court), greffier de juridiction (court registrar, court reporter, secretary of the court), greffier (court registrar, court reporter, secretary of the court), greffière-juriste (court registrar, court reporter, secretary of the court), greffière de juridiction (court registrar, court reporter, secretary of the court), greffière (court registrar, court reporter, secretary of the court). (various references)

   

German

  

Gerichtsschreiberin (court registrar, court reporter, secretary of the court), Gerichtsschreiber (reporter), Gerichtsaktuarin (court registrar, court reporter, secretary of the court), Gerichtsaktuar (court registrar, court reporter, secretary of the court), Aktuarin (court registrar, court reporter, secretary of the court), Aktuar (actuary). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

geripir. (various references)

   

Italian

  

attuario del tribunale (court registrar, court reporter, secretary of the court), attuario (actuary), attuaria del tribunale (court registrar, court reporter, secretary of the court), attuaria (court registrar, court reporter, secretary of the court). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ourtcay erkclay.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

escribano (actuary, bunting, notary). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: COURT CLERK

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

actuar, actuara, actuara da dretgira, RM:actuar da dretgira. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: COURT CLERK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-k-l-o-r-r-t-u"

-2 letters: occulter, truckler.

-3 letters: clocker, cloture, clouter, correct, coruler, coulter, courter, crocket, reoccur, trucker, truckle.

-4 letters: cocker, cockle, colter, colure, corker, couter, curler, curter, cutler, lector, locker, locket, lurker, occult, recock, recork, rector, relock, reluct, rocker, rocket, router, ruckle, tourer, tucker.

-5 letters: ceorl, clerk, clock, clour, clout, cluck, corer, court, crock, crore, cruck, cruel, cruet.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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