courts of record - Courts whose proceedings are permanently recorded, and which have the power to fine or imprison for contempt. In Utah, they include the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, district courts and juvenile courts.
Courts of record cannot be deprived of their jurisdiction except by express negative words. And such a court is the court of common pleas in Pennsylvania.
Inferior courts of record have, as a general rule, power to punish only those contempts which are committed in facie curiae or consist in disobedience to the lawful orders or judgments of the court.
Judgments rendered in courts of record are generally liens on the real estate of the defendants or parties against whom such judgments are given.
mover, exciter or maintainer of auits and quarrels in courts of record, or other courts, or in the country, by taking and keeping possession of lands in controversy, by all kinds of disturbances of the peace, ...
Any qualified person who prosecutes or defends causes in courts of record or other judicial tribunals of the United States, or of any of the states, or who renders legal advice or assistance in relation to any cause or matter.
An officer who represents the administrative power of a State within one of its counties: an officer who executes the mandates of the courts of record within a county; the chief ministerial officer in a county.
See also: Law, Person, Court, Record, Right
 
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