“office” is defined to be a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments there* unto belonging, whether public, as those of magistrates, or private, as of bailiffs, receivers, or the like. 2 Bl. Comm. 36. Row-land v. New York, 83 N. Y. 372; Dailey ▼. State, 8 Blackf. (Ind.) 330; Blair v. Marye, 80 Va. 495; worthy v. Barrett, 63 N. C. 202; People v. Duane, 121 N. Y. 367, 24 N. E. 845; U. S. v. Hartwell, 6 wall. 393, 18 L. Ed. 830
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
