Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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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 SESSIONS.