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Lord Justice Clerk
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or In Scotland, a judge next in rank to the lord justice-general. He presides in the second division of the court of session, and in the absence of the lord justicegeneral, presides in the court of justiciary. The justice clerk was originally not a judge at all, but simply clerk and legal assessor of the justice court. In course of time he was raised from the clerk's table to the bench, and by custom presided over the court in the absence of the justice-general. Up to 1672 his position was somewhat anomalous, as it was doubtful whether he was a clerk or a judge, but an act of that year, which suppressed the office of justice-depute, confirmed his position as a judge, forming him, with the justice-general and five of the lords of session into the court of justiciary. The lord justice clerk is also one of the officers of state for Scotland, and one of the commissioners for keeping the Scottish Regalia. His salary is L4800 a year.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Lord Justice Clerk'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/l/lord-justice-clerk.html. 1910.
