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the trial "Dockery v. State, 659 So. 2d 219 (1994)"] ;also : the place near or before the bench where a sidebar conference takes place [the judge informed both attorneys…that they…could stand at while questions were posed
High Court of Justice
part of the Supreme Court of Judicature of England and Wales that includes the Chancery, Family, and King's Bench or Queen's Bench divisions called also High Court
exchequer
law and equity jurisdiction in England and Wales over primarily revenue cases and now merged with the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice called also Court of the Exchequer NOTE: The Exchequer was created
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Bancus superior
Bancus superior, abbrev. Banc.Sup. [Lat.], the Upper Bench; the King's Bench was so called during the Protectorate.
bar
are stationed in criminal cases or where the business of the court is transacted in civil cases compare bench, dock, jury box, stand b : court tribunal [the younger judge brought a fresh viewpoint to the ]
Bar of the House
two pillars near the door which opens into the Central aisle facing the Speaker and which connects the benches on either side of the aisle. Before an offender is brought to the Bar of the House, the
Mansfield rule
an opinion by William Murray, first Earl of Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 976.
Latin information
loss of services); an English information is an information in equity on the revenue side of the King's Bench Division (see Halsb. L. of E., title 'Crown Practice.
Latitat
lies hid), a writ whereby all persons were originally summoned to answer in personal actions in the King's Bench; so called because it is supposed by the writ that the defendant lurks and lies hid, and cannot
Laudibus (de) legum angli'
Laudibus (de) legum angli'. Sir John Fortescue, who had been some time chief justice of the King's Bench in the reign of Henry VI., is said to have written this work, while in exile with the
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