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Magna Carta
for difficulty of some Articles cannot be determined by them, shall be referred to our justicers of the bench, and there shall be ended.' Assizes or actions of novel disseisin and mort-dauncestor have long been abolished, and
Master of the Crown Office
of the Crown Office, the Crown coroner and attorney in the criminal department of the court of King's Bench, who prosecuted at the relation of some private person or common in former, the Crown being the nominal
Mareecha
will. 'MNCs are mareechas and Parliament should not functionally succumb to 'golden deer' xenophilia' [Justice Iyer. Off the Bench Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., p. 128]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)
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Marshalsea, Court of the
Marshalsea, in the borough of Southwark, and a writ of error lay thence to the Court of King's Bench. Abolished by 12 & 13 Vict. c. 101, s. 13.
Jurisdictional Servitude
Servitude, a phrase which implies that the court (Supreme Court) is bound by its own jurisdictional limits. 'The bench, with all its limits to breakthrough, is bound by a jurisdictional servitude' [Shiv Mohan Singh v. State of
Masters of the Common Law Courts
Common Law Courts. There were five Masters on the plea side of each of the Courts of King's Bench and Exchequer, and also in the Common Pleas. They were appointed by 7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict.
Masters of the Supreme Court
Masters of the Supreme Court, in the King's Bench Division, officials, seven in number, deriving their title from the (English) Jud. (Officers) Act, 1879 (see now Jud.
Middlesex, Bill of
Middlesex, Bill of, a writ anciently resorted to by the Court of King's Bench, in order to enlarge its jurisdiction in civil causes, which was formerly confined to actions of trespass, or
Jury
Act, 1922. Special jurors are summoned to try the more important or difficult jury cases in the King's Bench Division. Grand jury, abolished (except in a few cases) by the (English) Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act,
Indicatif
an abolished writ by which a prosecution was in some cases removed from a Court-Christian to the King's Bench
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