Sunday, August 31, 2008

Registrar or Register of Deeds?

Here in Hillsborough County, we have eight candidates running for Register of Deeds. However, considering that just about nobody knows what a Register of Deeds does, the big campaign issue has been whether it's spelled "Register" or "Registrar". Some candidates spell it "Register", some candidates spell it "Registrar".

RSA 478 says they're registers, not registars. However, Webster's says that aRegister is an object or a verb, wheras a Registrar is a person.

With pressing issues like these determining our choice of Register or Registrar of Deeds, why the hell this position is elected and not appointed, I do not know.

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