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The Judicial Greffier is the clerk or registrar of the Royal Court and the other courts of the Island. [4] The Greffier also carries out some of the administrative functions of the Royal Court, for example registering doctors. [5] The Greffier of the States is the clerk and record-keeper for the States Assembly.
The Courts of Guernsey are responsible for the administration of justice in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. They apply the law of the Island, which is a mixture of customary law dating back as far as the 10th century and legislation passed by the legislature, the States of Deliberation .
H.M. Procureur and the junior H.M. Comptroller hold office through Royal Warrants and both are Law Officers of the Crown. H.M. Procureur is responsible for providing legal advice to the Island Government. [13] H.M. Greffier and H.M. Sherriff provide specific duties to the Courts of recording and enforcing. [13]
The Bailiff is the chief justice in each of the Channel Island bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey, also serving as president of the legislature and having ceremonial and executive functions. Each bailiwick has possessed its own bailiff since the islands were divided into two jurisdictions in the 13th century.
Guernsey is located at (42.267251, −104.743187 [7]According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.04 square miles (2.69 km 2), of which 1.02 square miles (2.64 km 2) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km 2) is water.
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Hell Gap (Smithsonian trinomial: 48GO305) is a deeply stratified archaeological site located in the Great Plains of eastern Wyoming, approximately thirteen miles north of Guernsey, where an abundant amount of Paleoindian and Archaic artifacts have been found and excavated since 1959. [2]
Register Cliff is a sandstone cliff and featured key navigational landmark prominently listed in the 19th century guidebooks about the Oregon Trail, and a place where many emigrants chiseled the names of their families on the soft stones of the cliff — it was one of the key checkpoint landmarks for parties heading west along the Platte River valley west of Fort John, Wyoming which allowed ...