court of record

They include being the first woman to serve as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee; the first tenure-track female professor at Vanderbilt University Law School; and the first female judge to sit on the bench of a Tennessee court of record, the Court of Criminal Appeals.

In fact, past legislative sessions have weathered repeated attempts to require that justices of the peace who preside over a court of record be attorneys.

Erskine May says the House of Lords has the power to inflict fines in its capacity as a court of record.

If there were a comma present, the opinion said, then “of a court of record” would only apply to “order.”

He says the lack of a comma separating the phrase, “of a court of record,” means it refers to both “subpoena” and “order.”