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- noun Plural form of
prothonotary .
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Archbishop of Nisibi, later on Cardinal, remarkable for his long, pensive nose, and another Monsignor, entitled thus: Abbate Palmieri, domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the Holy See,
Les Miserables 2008
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The county system of Pennsylvania will afford abundant proof of the statements here made: the terms of the officers, who are all elective, do not average more than four years, even including such court-officials as the clerks and prothonotaries, whose duties are in some particulars technical and difficult, requiring an acquaintance with the forms of legal procedure.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various
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These records, obtained in the offices of the respective prothonotaries, produced thirty-seven cases in Northumberland and twenty-two in Lycoming
The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography George D. Wolf
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Appearance Dockets of Lycoming and Northumberland counties in the respective prothonotaries 'offices.
The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography George D. Wolf
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The attorney-general, registers, and prothonotaries are appointed for five years, removable in like manner.
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The privileges and limitations in the use of the pontifical insignia by the different classes of prothonotaries are set forth in the Constitution of Pius X, "Inter multiplices curas" (21 February, 1905).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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By the Motu Proprio "Inter multiplices" of 21 February, 1905, Pius X exactly defined the position of the prothonotaries.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Abbots to their own monastery or places within their jurisdiction, for canons to their own church, and for prothonotaries to those places for which the ordinary gives his consent.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The prelate-officials sit in the following order: first, after the secretary of the congregation, is the sacristan to His Holiness, after whom comes one of the Apostolic prothonotaries permanently attached to this office, next is the dean of the Rota, with the two oldest auditors, after these the master of the Sacred Palace, the promotor of the Faith, and the assessor, or sub-promotor.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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The college of the abbreviators of the greater presidency having been suppressed, and the abbreviators of the lesser presidency having become extinct in fact, the Apostolic prothonotaries in actual office have been appointed to sign the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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