Aurum Regin - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: aurum reginAurum regin'
Aurum regin', queen-gold. A royal revenue belonging to every queen consort during her marriage with the king, and due from every person who has made a voluntary offering or fine to the king amounting to ten marks or upwards, for and in consideration of any privileges, grants, licenses, pardons, or other matters of royal favour conferred upon him by the king. It is due in the proportion of one-tenth part more, over and above the entire offering or fine made to the king, and becomes an actual debt of record to the queen's majesty by the mere recording of the fine, 1 Bl. Com. 214....
Queen gold
Queen gold. See AURUM REGIN'....
A.R
A.R., anno regni, the year of the reign as A.R.V. R. 22 (Anno Regni Victori' Regin' vicesimo secundo); in the twenty-second year of the reign of Queen Victoria....
Banc (or Banco), sittings in
Banc (or Banco), sittings in [fr. bancus, Lat., a seat or bench of justice. Thus Bancus Regin' or Bank la Reine is the Queen's Bench; Bancus communium Placitorum, or Bench le Common Pleas, is the Court of Common Pleas, or the Common Bench], the sittings of a Superior Court of Common Law as a full court as distinguished from the sittings of the judges at Nisi Prius or on circuit. Such sittings might be held out of term as well as in term (1 & 2 Vict. c.32, s. 2, and (English) C.L.P. Act, 1854, s. 95). The business of the courts in banc was transferred to Divisional Courts of the High Court of Justice [(English) Jud. Act, 1873, ss. 40, 41]. See now (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 63. See DIVISIONAL COURT....
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