"Office" is defined to be a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, whether public, as those of magistrates, or private, as of bailiffs, receivers, or the like. 2 Bl. Comm. 36. Rowland v. New York, 83 N. Y. 372; Dailey v. State, 8 Blackf. (Ind.) 330; Blair v. Marye, 80 Va. 495; Worthy v. Barrett, 63 N. C. 202; … [Read more...]

evidence. A book kept in a public office, not appertaining to a court, authorized by the law of any state. 2. An exemplification, of any such office book, when authenticated under the act of congress of 27th March, 1804, Ingers' Dig. 77, is to have such faith and credit, given to it in every court and office within the United States, as such exemplification has by law or usage … [Read more...]

In old English law. The morsel of execration; the corsned, (q. v.) 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 2i. … [Read more...]

A transcript of a record or proceeding filed in an office established by law, certified under the seal of the proper officer. … [Read more...]

crimes. The doing that which a penal law forbids to be done, or omitting to do what it commands; in this sense it is nearly synonymous with crime. In a more confined sense, it may be considered as having the same meaning with misdemeanor, but it differs from it in this, that it is not indictable, but punishable summarily by the forfeiture of a penalty. 1 Chit. Prac. 14. … [Read more...]