Court of Record

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..... ceedings are enrolled for a perpetual memorial and testimony, and which has power to fine and imprison for contempt of its authority." In Wharton's Law Lexicon, Court of Record is defined as: "Courts are either of record where their acts and judicial proceedings are enrolled for a perpetual memorial and testimony and they have power to fine and imprison; or not of record being courts .....

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..... ts not of record. Certain Courts are expressly declared by statute to be courts of record. In the case of courts not expressly declared to be courts of record, the answer to the question whether a court is a court of record seems to depend in general upon whether it has power to fine or imprison, by statute or otherwise, for contempt of itself or other substantive offences; if it has such power, i .....

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