clerk of the peace

Clerk of the Peace. Hist. An officer of the Quarter Sessions responsible for maintaining the courts’ records, preparing indictments, entering judgments, issuing process, and other clerical and administrative functions. • The office was abolished in England in 1971, when the Quarter Sessions’ jurisdiction was transferred to the Crown Courts. See quarter session under SESSION(1).

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