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Superior courts
Superior courts, the Courts of Chancery, King's (or Queen's) bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, at Westminster, were so called. See these Courts treated of under the proper titles; and
Pone
rarely if ever the case), the plaint in a County Court was removed into the King's Bench or Common Pleas by writ of pone. It was an original writ obtained from the cursitor, bearing teste after the
Custos brevium
Custos brevium (the keeper of the writs), a principal clerk belonging to the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, whose office it was to keep the writs returnable into those courts. Abolished by 1 Wm. 4,
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Conservators of the truce and safe conducts
him of his goods, the Lord Chancellor, with any of the justices of either the King's Bench or Common Pleas, should cause full restitution and amends to be made to the party injured, Jac. Law Dict.
Blackstone
Blackstone, William, 1723-80. Judge of King's Bench and Common Pleas. Author of 'Commentaries on the Laws of England,' etc.
Assise of darrein presentment
L. P. Act, 1860, s. 26, quare impedit cannot be brought, an action in the King's Bench (formerly Common Pleas) Division of the High Court of Justice being substituted for it.
Bail Court
was an auxiliary of the Court of Queen's Bench. It heard and determined ordinary matters, and disposed of common motions, Consult Chit. Arch. Prac.
Damage-cleer
Damage-cleer [fr. damna dericorum,Lat.], a fee assessed of the tenth part in the Common Pleas, and the twentieth part in the King's Bench and Exchequer, out of all damages exceeding five marks
Master of the Crown Office
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 prosecutor, 6 & 7 Vict. c. 20. He is now an
Special paper
Special paper, a list kept in the Courts of Common Law, and afterwards in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, in which list special cases, etc.,
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