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Attorney
he was retained: he answered to the Solicitor in the Courts of Chancery, and the Proctor of the Admiralty, Ecclesiastical, Probate, and Divorce Courts. An attorney was almost invariably also a solicitor. The name 'Solicitor' was provided … Law was a public officer belonging to the Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster, who conducted legal proceedings on behalf of others, called his clients, by whom he was retained: he answered to the Solicitor in
Assessors
with the assistance of such assessors. By the County Courts Act, 1934, s. 88, replacing the County Court Admiralty Jurisdiction Act, 1868, s. 14, provision is made for the appointment of assessors of 'natural skill and experience' … Court or the Court of Appeal may, when it may think it expedient other than in a criminal proceeding by the Crown, call in the aid of one or more assessors specially qualified, and try and hear
Rem, Judgment in
opinion of judges, per Blackburn J., in the House of Lords, supra. The chief instances are in the Admiralty Courts; foreign judgments, declar-ing status of a ship; or in the matrimonial causes, etc.; grants of probate or … particular subject-matter by a tribunal having competent jurisdiction and concluding all persons (not merely the parties to the proceedings) from saying that the status of the thing adjudicated upon was not such as declared by the adjudication,
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County Courts
Rules Committee of the Supreme Court; see (English) County Courts Act, 1934, s. 99, and County Court Rules. Admiralty.--The (English) County Courts Admiralty Jurisdiction Acts, 1868 and 1869, provided for the appointment of County Courts for Admiralty … Court was a tribunal inident to the jurisdiction of a sheriff, but was not a Court of Record. Proceedings were removable into a superior court by recordari facias loquelam, or writ of false judgment. Outlawries ofabsconding offenders
Judge
Court of Judicature (Amendment) Act, 1935 (25 Geo. 5, c. 2), s. 1. In the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division there is the President and two judges. In the Court of Appeal, in addition to the Master … designated as a judge but also every person who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal, definitive judgment, or a judgment which, if not appealed against, would be definitive, or a
jurisdiction
"National Law Journal"] compare personal jurisdiction in this entry NOTE: Diversity jurisdiction, federal question jurisdiction, and jurisdiction over admiralty and bankruptcy cases are examples of the federal courts' subject matter jurisdiction. Subject matter jurisdiction is generally established … allows a single court to decide an entire case instead of dividing the claims among several courts and proceedings, and allows a federal court to decide a claim that would otherwise be properly brought to a state
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