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Recorder : \Re*cord"er\ (r?*k?rd"?r), n.
1. One who records; specifically, a person whose official
duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.
2. The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and
boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian
settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord
Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central
Criminal Court.
3. (Mus.) A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet.
[Obs.] ``Flutes and soft recorders.'' --Milton.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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RECORDER. 1. A judicial officer of some cities, possessing generally the
powers and authority of a judge. 3 Yeates' R. 300; 4 Dall. Rep. 299; but see
1 Rep. Const. Ct. 45. Anciently,Recorder : signified to recite or testify on
re-collection as occasion might require what had previously passed in court,
and this was the duty of the judges, thence called recordeurs. Steph. Plead.
note 11. 2. An officer appointed to make record or enrollment of deeds and
other legal instruments, authorized by law to be recorded.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Recorder : (Heb. mazkir, i.e., "the mentioner," "rememberancer"), the
office first held by Jehoshaphat in the court of David (2 Sam.
8:16), also in the court of Solomon (1 Kings 4:3). The next
recorder mentioned is Joah, in the reign of Hezekiah (2 Kings
18:18, 37; Isa. 36:3, 22). In the reign of Josiah another of the
name of Joah filled this office (2 Chr. 34:8). The "recorder"
was the chancellor or vizier of the kingdom. He brought all
weighty matters under the notice of the king, "such as
complaints, petitions, and wishes of subjects or foreigners. He
also drew up papers for the king's guidance, and prepared drafts
of the royal will for the scribes. All treaties came under his
oversight; and he had the care of the national archives or
records, to which, as royal historiographer, like the same state
officer in Assyria and Egypt, he added the current annals of the
kingdom."
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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