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Definition of Macers
1. macer [n] - See also: macer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Macers
Literary usage of Macers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practice of the Court of Session: On the Basis of the Late Mr. Darling's by Charles Farquhar Shand, James Johnston Darling (1848)
"The macers are the servants of the court. Their duty is to carry the mace before
the judges when they come into or go out of the court, and in processions; ..."
2. Inquiry Into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peerages, Before, and After by John Riddell (1842)
"The Court of the macers, before whom, according to the practice of the time, the
matter came, (in 1767) allowed a clair preferred . . iii • • c • • William ..."
3. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1832)
"Being the last day of the Session, the pursuer was brought from the jail by one
of the macers, on the verbal order of the Court, and having taken the oath, ..."
4. The Edinburgh Almanack, Or Universal Scots and Imperial Register, (1828)
"Davidson, WS Principal Clerk ta the Commission. Sylvester Reid, Deputy Clerk.
John Barren, Zd Deputy Clerk ff Extractor. The macers of the Court of Session, ..."
5. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1884)
"300 [n all, eighteen macers, drawing from one source and another among them ...
Under the 28th section the whole of the fees of the macers were to be paid ..."
6. A Collection of the Public General Statutes and Acts of Sederunt: Relating by John M'Laren, Scotland Court of Session (1861)
"And be it enacted, That the Fees upon Ser- Fees of macers vices heretofore payable
to the macers shall be abolished sauries provided from and after the ..."
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