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chequer, in whose office all the officers 

 of the court, having special privilege, 

 ought to sue or be sued in any action. 

 In this office also actions at law may be 

 prosecuted by other persons, but the 

 plaintiff ought to be tenant or debtor to 

 the King, or some way accountable to him. 

 The under clerks are attorneys in all suits. 



CLERKS of the privy-seal) four officers 

 that attend the Lord-privy-seal, for writ- 

 ing and making out all things that are 

 sent by warrant from the signet to the 

 privy-seal, and to be passed the great- 

 seal ; and likewise to make out privy- 

 seals, upon special occasions of his. Majes- 

 ty's affairs, as for loan of money, or the 

 like, 



CLERK of the rolls, an officer of the 

 chancery, whose business is to make 

 searches after and copies of deeds, offi- 

 ces, &c. 



CLERK of the rules, an officer of the 

 court of King's Bench, who draws up and 

 enters all the rules and orders made in 

 court, and gives rules of course in divers 

 writs. 



CLERK of tfie signet, an officer continu- 

 ally attendant upon his Majesty's princi- 

 pal secretary, who has the custody of the 

 privy signet, as well for sealing the" King's 

 private letters, as those grants which pass 

 the king's hand by bill signed. There are 

 four of these officers, who have their diet 

 at the secretary's table. 



CLERKS, six, officersjn chancery, next 

 in degree below the twelve masters, 

 v\hose business it is to enrol commissions, 

 pardons, patents, warrants, &c. which 

 pass the great seal ; they were anciently 

 clerici, and forfeited their places if they 

 married. They are also attorneys tor 

 parties in suits depending in the court of 

 chancery. 



CLERK of the supersedeas, an officer of 

 the Common pleas, who makes out writs 

 of supersedeas, forbidding the sheriff to 

 return the exigent upon a defendant's 

 appearing thereto on an outlawry. 



CLERK of the treasury, an officer belong- 

 ing to the court of Common Pleas, who 

 has the charge of keeping the records of 

 the court, makes out all records of nisi 

 prius, and likewise all exemplifications 

 of records being in the treasury. He has 

 the fees due for all searches ; and has un- 

 der him an under-keeper, who always 

 keeps one key of the treasury door. 



CLERK of the ivarrmits, an officer of the 

 Common Pleas, whose business is to enter 

 -ill warrants of attorney for plaintiffs and 

 defendants in suit; and to enrol deeds of 

 feargain and sale, that are acknowledged 



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in court or before a judge. His office is 

 likewise to estreat into the Exchequer all 

 issues, fines, estreats, and amercements, 

 which grow due to the crown in that 

 court. 



CLERODENDRUM, in botany,a genus 

 of the Didy namia Angiospermia class and 

 order. Natural order of Personate. Viti- 

 ces, Jussieu, Essential character : calyx 

 five-cleft, bell-shaped; corolla with a fili- 

 form tube and funnel shaped, five part- 

 ed, equal border ; stamina very long, gap- 

 ing very much between the segments. 

 Berry one-seeded. There are eight spe- 

 cies, natives of the East Indies, China, 

 and Japan. 



CLETHRA, in botany, a genus of the 

 Decandria Monogynia class and order. 

 Nat. order of Bicornes. Ericze, Jussieu. 

 Essential character: calyx live-paried; 

 petals five ; stigma trifid ; capsule three- 

 celled, three-valved. There are four spe- 

 cies, natives of North America. 



CLIBADIUM, in botany, a genus of the 

 Monoecia Pentandri a class and order. Na- 

 tural order of Composite Oppostifolix. 

 Corymbifers, Jussieu. Essential charac- 

 ter : male common calyx imbricate ; co- 

 rolla of the disk five-cleft ; female com- 

 mon calyx the same ; corolla of the ray 

 female three or four ; seed an umbihcate 

 drupe. There is but one species, viz. C. 

 surinamense, native of Surinam. 



CL1FFORTIA, in botany, so named in 

 honour of George Clifford, a mercnani at 

 Amsterdam, and a considerable botanist, 

 a genus of the Dioecia Polyandna class 

 and order. Natural order of 1 ricoccse. 

 Rosaces, Jussieu. Essential character : 

 male calyx three-ieaveu, superior; sta- 

 mens about thirty. Female calyx Uiree- 

 leaved, superior; corolia none; styles c\vo; 

 capsule two-celled; seeds one. 'Iheie are 

 nineteen species,alishruus from the Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



CLIMACTERIC, among physicians and 

 natural historians, a critical year in a ,.cr- 

 son's life, in which he is supposed uo 

 stand in great danger of death. 



According to some every seventh year 

 is a climacteric; but others aliov. only 

 those years produced by multiplying 7, 

 by the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9, ..o be 

 climactencal. These years, they say, 

 bring with them some remarkable change 

 with respect to health, life or fortune : 

 the grand climacteric is the sixty-third 

 year ; but some, making two, add to this 

 the eighty-first : the oiner remarkable 

 climacterics are.the seventh, twcn.} -first, 

 thirty-fifth, forty-ninth, and tiffy-s.xih. 

 The credit of climacteric years can only 



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