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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 966 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RECORDER , in its See also:

original sense, one who sets down or records. Hence applied to a See also:person with legal knowledge who was appointed by the See also:mayor and aldermen to " See also:record " or keep in mind the proceedings of their See also:court, as well as the customs of the See also:city. The word is now chiefly used of the See also:principal legal officer of a city or See also:borough having a See also:separate court of See also:quarter sessions. He must be a See also:barrister of five years' See also:standing, appointed by the See also:crown and holding See also:office during See also:good behaviour, and receiving " such yearly See also:salary, not exceeding that stated in the See also:petition on which the See also:grant of a separate court of quarter sessions was made," as the See also:sovereign directs (Municipal Corporations See also:Act 1882, s. 163). The re-corder holds, once in every quarter of a See also:year, or oftener, if he thinks See also:fit, a court of quarter sessions in and for the borough. He is See also:sole See also:judge of the court, " having See also:cognizance of all crimes, offences, and matters cognizable by courts of quarter sessions for counties in See also:England," except that he may not allow or See also:levy any borough See also:rate, or grant licences (s. 165). He is not eligible to serve in See also:parliament for the borough, or to be an See also:alderman or councillor, or stipendiary See also:magistrate for the borough, though he may be revising barrister and is eligible to serve in Parliament except for the borough. He may be appointed recorder for two or more boroughs conjointly. He may, in See also:case of sickness or unavoidable See also:absence, appoint in See also:writing a barrister of five years' standing to act as deputyrecorder for him. A recorder is ex officio a See also:justice for the borough.

The recorder of See also:

London is judge of the See also:lord mayor 's court, and one of the commissioners of the central criminal court. His salary is £4000 a year. He is appointed by the lord mayor and aldermen, but by the See also:Local See also:Government Act 1888, s. 42, sub-s. 14, after the vacancy next after the beginning of the act, no recorder may exercise any judicial See also:function unless he is appointed by the sovereign to exercise such function. See QUARTER SESSIONS, COURT OF.

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