This phrase is applied to designate a paper which is a copy of a record, public book, or register, and which has been compared with the original. 1 Campb. 469. 2. Such examined copy is admitted in evidence, because of the public inconvenience which would arise, if such record, public book, or register, were removed from place to place, and because any fraud or mistake made in … [Read more...]

(1) The person who is asking questions of a person sworn under oath to tell the truth. In court, it is usually an attorney who is the examiner of the witness. (2) In the patent office. An officer in the patent office charged with the duty of examining the patentability of inventions for which patents are asked. The patent examiner will approve or deny a patent. (3) English law. … [Read more...]

practice. Persons appointed to question students of law, in order to ascertain their qualifications before they are admitted to practice. Officers in the courts of chancery whose duty it is to examine witnesses, are also called examiners. … [Read more...]

An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle. Examples illustrate, but do not restrain or change the laws: illustrant non restringunt legem. … [Read more...]

In old English practice. A roll into which (in the old way of exhibiting sheriffs' accounts) the illeviable fines and desperate debts were transcribed, and which was annually read to the sheriff upon his accounting, to see what might be gotten. Cowell … [Read more...]