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click-wrap agreement.See POINT-AND-CLICK AGREEMENT. [Blacks Law 8th]

clerk’s record.See RECORD(4). [Blacks Law 8th]

  Clerk of the Signet (sig-nit).Hist. An officer who kept the privy signet and attended the sovereign’s principal secretary. • The signet was used to seal royal letters and other documents not requiring the Great Seal of the Realm. The office was abolished in England in 1851. See great seal (3) under SEAL; PRIVY SIGNET. CLERKSHIP clerkship.…

Clerk of the Privy Seal (priv-ee seel).Hist. An officer responsible for preparing documents for the Lord Privy Seal. • The use of the Privy Seal was abolished in 1884. See PRIVY SEAL. [Blacks Law 8th]

Clerk of the Pipe.Hist. An Exchequer officer responsible for the Pipe Rolls. • The office was abolished in 1833. — Also termed Engrosser of the Great Roll. See PIPE ROLLS. [Blacks Law 8th]

Clerk of the Pells.Hist. An Exchequer officer who entered tellers’ bills on the parchment rolls (pells), one for receipts and the other for disbursements. — Also termed Master of the Pells. [Blacks Law 8th]

Clerk of the Peace.Hist. An officer of the Quarter Sessions responsible for maintaining the courts’ records, preparing indictments, entering judgments, issuing process, and other clerical and administrative functions. • The office was abolished in England in 1971, when the Quarter Sessions’ jurisdiction was transferred to the Crown Courts. See quarter session under SESSION(1). [Blacks Law 8th]

Clerk of the Parliaments.The principal permanent official of the House of Lords, responsible for the House’s minutes and documents, and for advising the members on procedure. [Blacks Law 8th]

clerk of the market.Hist. The overseer of a public market, responsible for witnessing oral contracts, inquiring into weights and measures, measuring land, and settling disputes between people dealing there. • The office has become obsolete as a result of various statutes regulating weights and measures. [Blacks Law 8th]

Clerk of the House of Commons.An officer of the House of Commons who keeps the House journal, signs orders, indorses bills sent to the House of Lords, and has custody of all records. • The Clerk is appointed for life by the Crown. [Blacks Law 8th]