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Clarendon, constitutions of, assize of. At a great council held at Clarendon, in Wiltshire, A.D. 1164, in the tenth year of the reign of Henry II., a code of laws was brought forward by the king, under the title of the ancient customs of the realm and known as the 'Constitutions of Clarendon'; and as Becket had solemnly promised he would observe what were really such, the king procured the principal propositions in dispute to be enacted, and declared by the council under that denomination. The main provisions of them were that clergy charged with crimes were to be tried in the civil courts, and that a justice of the king should be present in the king's courts; that no prelate was to quit the realm without the king's permission; that prelates were to be subject to feudal burdens; that the king was to hold all vacant benefices and receive their revenues till the vacancies were filled; and that goods forfeited to the Crown were not to be protected by sanctuary.As in the Constitutions of C...
Clarendon
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Assize, or assise
Assize, or assise [fr. assideo, Lat., to sit together; whence assire, O. Fr., to set, assis, set, seated, sealed], anciently a statute or ordinance, e.g., Assize of Clarendon; also a jury, who sit together for the purpose of trying a cause, or rather a Court of jurisdiction which summons jury by a commission of assize to take the assizes. Hence the judicial assemblies, held by the king's commission in every county as well to take indictments as to try causes at Nisi Prius, are commonly termed the assizes. There are two commissions. (I.) General, which is issued twice a year to the judges being usually assigned to every circuit. See CIRCUITS. The judges have four several commissions: (1) of oyer and terminer, directed to them and many other gentlemen of the county, by which they are empowered to try treasons, felonies, etc. This is the largest commission. (2) Of gaol delivery, directed to the judges and the clerk of assize or associate, empowering them to try every prisoner in the gaol ...
Constitution
Constitution, any regular form or system of government. Also a particular law, ordinance, or regulation made by the authority of any superior; as the Novel Constitutions of Justinian and his successors; the Constitutions of Clarendon; the Ecclesiastical Constitutions, etc.Constitution and 'Organisation' as against jurisdiction and powers', words do not include words 'jurisdiction' and powers' within their scope and power of 'Constitution' and 'organisation' of the Supreme Court and High Court nests with Parliament alone, Jamshed N. Guzdar v. State of Maharashtra, (2005) 2 SCC 59.Constitution is the mechanism under which the laws are to be made and not merely an Act which declares what the law is to be. A Constitution must not be construed in any narrow or pedantic sense, and that construction most beneficial to the widest possible amplitude of its power, must be adopted, India Cement Ltd. v. State of T.N., (1990) 1 SCC 12: AIR 1990 SC 85.Means the Constitution of India. [Supreme Court ...
High Court of Justice
High Court of Justice. The (English) Judicature Act, 1925, has replaced with amendments the Judicature Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 66). The earlier Act abolished the former Superior Courts of Law and Equity, and in their place established a Supreme Court of Judicature (see that title), consisting of the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal. The High Court is now a Superior Court of Record, and has vested in it, by s. 16 of the Act of 1873, amended by ss. 9 and 33 of the Judicature Act, 1875, the jurisdiction formerly exercised by the following Courts, viz.: '(1) The High Court of Chancery; (2) The Court of King's Bench; (3) The Court of Common Pleas at Westminster; (4) The Court of Exchequer; (5) The Court of Admiralty; (6) The Court of Probate; (7) The Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes; (8) The Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster; (9) The Court of Pleas at Durham; (10) The Courts created by Commissions of Assize, of Oyer and Terminer, and of Gaol Delivery, or any such C...
L'sione fidei, suits pro
L'sione fidei, suits pro, proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts for spiritual offences against conscience, for non-payment of debts, or breaches of civil contracts. By entertaining them the clergy attempted to turn the Spiritual Courts into tribunals for the administration of equity; but these suits were prohibited by the Constitutions of Clarendon, 10 Hen. 2, c. 15....
Stickler
Stickler. 1. An inferior officer who cuts woods within the royal parks of Clarendon; an arbitrator. 2. An obstinte contender about anything....
University Press
University Press. At Oxford, the public press of the University is called the 'Clarendon Press'; at Cambridge, the 'Pitt Press.'...
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