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ASSESSOR (See also:Lat. assessare, assidere, to sit by) , a -See also:Roman See also:term originally applied to a trained lawyer who sat beside a See also:governor of a See also:province or other See also:magistrate, to instruct him in the ad-ministration of the See also:laws (see See also:Roll, De assessoribus magistraluum Romanorum, See also:Leipzig, 1872). The See also:system is still exemplified in See also:Scotland, where it is usual in the larger towns for municipal magistrates, in the See also:administration of their See also:civil See also:jurisdiction, to have the aid of professional assessors. In See also:England, by the Judicature See also:Act 1873, the See also:court of See also:appeal and the High Court may in any cause or See also:matter See also:call in the aid of assessors. The See also:Patents Act 1907 makes See also:special See also:provision for assessors in patent and See also:trade-See also:mark cases. By the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1891 the See also:House of Lords may, in appeals in See also:admiralty actions, call in the aid of assessors, while in the admiralty See also:division of the High Court it is usual for the See also:Elder Brethren of Trinity House to assist as nautical assessors. In admiralty cases in the See also:county courts, too, the See also:judge is frequently assisted by assessors of " nautical skill and experience " (County Court Admiralty Jurisdiction Act 1868). In the ecclesiastical courts assessors assist the See also:bishop in proceedings under the See also:Church Discipline Act 1840, S. 11, while under the See also:Clergy Discipline Act 1892, s. 2, they assist the See also:chancellor in determining questions of fact. By the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876, s. 14, the See also:king in See also:council may make rules for the attendance of archbishops and bishopsas assessors in the See also:hearing of ecclesiastical cases by the judk1al See also:committee of the privy council. The term " assessor " is also very generally applied to persons appointed to ascertain and See also:fix the value of rates, taxes, &c., and in this sense the word is used in the See also:United States.

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France and in all See also:European countries where the civil See also:law system prevails, the term assesseur is applied to those assistant See also:judges who, with a See also:president, compose a judicial court. In See also:Germany an Assessor, or Beisitzer; is a member of the legal profession who has passed four years in actual practice and become qualified for the position of a judge.

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