Register

Definition and stakes

Various,  Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18…

“ That every rector, vicar, curate, and every registrar, registering officer, and secretary, who shall have the keeping, for the time being, of any register book of births, deaths, or marriages, shall at all reasonable times allow searches to be made of any register book in his keeping, and shall give a copy, certified under his hand, of any entry or entries in the same, on payment of the fee hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, for every search extending over a period not more than one year, the sum of 1s., and 6d. ”
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John Asgill,  An Essay on a Registry, for Titles of Lands (1698)

“ But why of all troubles the trouble of a Registry should be only grievous, I can't tell, unless because it puts an End to Strife: Is it such a mighty trouble for an Attorneys Clerk, when he is to enter up a Judgment, to step into the Registry and leave an Entry made of it? and is it such a great trouble for a Man when he has sealed a Deed to go to the Register to acknowledge it? ”
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Portrait of Thomas Davidson Thomas Davidson,  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary 1908… (1908)

“ Reg′istrar, one who keeps a register or official record; Reg′istrar-gen′eral, an officer having the superintendence of the registration of all births, deaths, and marriages; Reg′istrarship, office of a registrar.—v.t. Reg′istrāte.—ns. Registrā′tion, act of registering: in organ-playing, the act of combining stops for the playing of given pieces of music; Reg′istry, act of registering: place where a register is kept: facts recorded.—Registration Act, a statute of 1885 extending the borough system of registration to county towns ”
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