OFFICE. “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 Bi. Comm. 36. Rowfand v. New York, 88 N. Y. 372; Dailey v.

private injury, is regarded as a proceeding emanating from the office of the judge, and may be instituted by the mere motion of the judge. But, in practice, these suits are instituted by rivate individuals, with the permission of the udge or his surrogate; and the private prosecutor in any such case is, accordingly, said to “promote the office of the judge.” Mozley &