New SA Jural Assembly Seal

Kindly take notice that the SA Jural Assembly seal has been updated under advisement of the Sa Jural Committee;

There are 5 Requirements to be a Court of Record:

1. Keeps Record of proceedings according to the common-law;

2. Acts and judicial proceedings are enrolled or recorded for a perpetual memory and testimony;

3. A judicial tribunal having attributes and exercising functions independently of the person of the magistrate designated generally to hold it;

4. Power to find or imprison for contempt;

5. Court Seal;

From Black’s Law 4th Edition:

Courts of record and courts not of record. The former being those whose acts and judicial proceedings are enrolled, or recorded, for a perpetual memory and testimony, and which have power to fine or imprison for contempt. Error lies to their judgments, and they generally possess a seal.
Courts not of record are those of inferior dignity, which have no power to fine or imprison, and in which the proceedings are not enrolled or recorded. 3 Bl. Comm. 24; 3 Steph. Comm. 383; The Thomas Fletcher, C.C.Ga., 24 F. 481; Ex parte Thistleton, 52 Cal. 225; Erwin v. U. S., D.C.Ga.,
37 F. 488, 2 L.R.A. 229; Heininger v. Davis, 96 Ohio St. 205, 117 N.E. 229, 231.

A “court of record” is a judicial tribunal having attributes and exercising functions independently of the person of the magistrate designated generally to hold it, and proceeding according to the course of common law, its acts and proceedings being enrolled for a perpetual memorial. Jones v. Jones, 188 Mo.App. 220, 175 S.W. 227, 229; Ex parte Gladhill, 8 Metc., Mass., 171, per Shaw, C. J. See, also, Ledwith v. Rosalsky, 244 N.Y. 406, 155 N.E. 688, 689.

Courts may be at the same time of record for some purposes and not of record for others. Lester v. Redmond, 6 Hill, N.Y., 590; Ex parte Gladhill, 8 Metc., Mass., 168.

“Seals” serve as an authentication of an instrument and also as the badge of a specialty. Caruthers V. Peninsular Life Ins. Co., 150 Fla. 467, 7 So.2d 841, 842.

Seals such as on counter-deeds are also used to invalidate, destroy or alter public ones.

Sincerely, SAJurA