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  2. County courthouse architecture in colonial America - Wikipedia

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    The clerk's office would likely have been to one of the shorter sides of the T in the T-shaped colonial county courthouse. It would have contained a desk for the clerk to prepare the court docket, typically covered with a green tablecloth, and court record storage in the form of trunks, boxes, or shelves.

  3. List of the oldest courthouses in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first judges held court on the lower Eastern Shore of Virginia starting in 1632 by meeting in private homes, ordinaries and taverns. In 1677 the court was moved to an area called "The Hornes", later to be called Peachburg Town, and then Eastville. The site has served as the seat of Northampton County government since that time.

  4. Forum (legal) - Wikipedia

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    City of Rockford, the Supreme Court found that "The nature of a place, the pattern of its normal activities, dictate the kinds of regulations of time, place, and manner that are reasonable. " In determining what is reasonable, the Court stated that "[the] crucial question is whether the manner of expression is basically incompatible with the ...

  5. List of courthouses in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Historically Mississippi may have had a county court in each of its 82 counties but in 2016, Mississippi has just 19 county courts. There are in fact at least five distinct types of non-Federal courts in Mississippi: County courts are created by the state legislature to reduce the workload of circuit courts and chancery courts. Adams County ...

  6. Public records - Wikipedia

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    In the United States the common law right to "access court records to inspect and to copy" was reaffirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Nixon v Warner Communications, Inc (1978), where the court found various parts of the right to access court records as inherent to the First, Fourth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments. In the United States access ...

  7. Local government in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    The second most prestigious class of cities was the municipium (plural municipia). Municipia had originally been communities of non-citizens among Rome's Italic allies. Following the Social War , Roman citizenship was awarded to all Italy, with the result that a municipium was effectively now a community of citizens.

  8. Salford Hundred - Wikipedia

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    The Manor or Hundred of Salford had Anglo-Saxon origins. The Domesday Book recorded that the area was held in 1066 by Edward the Confessor. [4] [5] Salford was recorded as part of the territory of Inter Ripam et Mersam or "Between Ribble and Mersey", and it was included with the information about Cheshire, though it cannot be said clearly to have been part of Cheshire.

  9. National Register of Historic Places listings in Fresno ...

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    Location of Fresno County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fresno County, California.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fresno County, California, United States.