Coroner

Coroner. A very ancient officer at the Common Law, so called because he has principally to do with pleas of the Crown, appointed in boroughs by the Borough Council under ss. 171-174 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and in counties by the County Council, under s. 5 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888, prior to which Act county coroners were elected by the freeholders in each county.An early definition of his duties was provided by the statute 'De Officio Coronatoris,' 4 Edw. 1, repealed by the consolidating (English) Coroners Act, 1887, which codifies the law as follows:--Where a coroner is informed that the dead body of a person is lying within his jurisdiction, and there is reasonable cause to suspect that such person has died either a violent or an unnatural death, or has died a sudden death of which the cause is unknown, or that such person has dies in prison, or in such place or under such circumstances as to require an inquest in pursuance of any Act, the...

Inquest, Coroner's

Inquest, Coroner's. see CORONER....

Coroner of the King's Household

Coroner of the King's Household hath an exempt jurisdiction within the verge which the coroner of the county cannot intermeddle with, 2 Hawk. P.C. c. 9, s. 15....

Coroner's

Coroner's, absence for any lawful or reasonable cause means that a depty may only act when the corner is physically absent from his or her duties, for example on holiday, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v. Inner South London Coroner, (2003) 1 WLR 371....

Queen's Coroner and Attorney

Queen's Coroner and Attorney, an officer on the Crown side of the Queen's Bench (6 & 7 Vict. c. 20), who by the (English) Judicature Officers) Act, 1879, became a 'Master of the Supreme Court.'...

coroner

coroner [Anglo-French, recorder of crown pleas, from corone crown] : a public officer whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of death when there is reason to think the death may not be due to natural causes ...

Coronation oath

Coronation oath. At the public ceremony of crowning a sovereign of this kingdom in acknowledgment of his right to govern the kingdom, the sovereign swears to observe the laws, customs, and privileges of the kingdom, and to maintain the Protestant reformed religion. The exact form of the oath was prescribed by 1 w. & M. s. 2, c. 2, but was altered in 1910: see BILL OF RIGHTS....

Custos placitorum coron'

Custos placitorum coron' (the keeper of the pleas of the Crown). The custos rotulorum, Bract. Lib. 2, c. 5....

Jus Coron'

Jus Coron', the right of the Crown....

Treasure-trove

Treasure-trove [thesaurus inventus Lat.], money or coin, gold, silver plate, or bullion found hidden in the earth or other private place, the owner thereof being unknown or unfound, in which case it belongs to the Crown: see Jervis on Coroners, p. 2. Bracton defines it, vetus depositio pecuni'. Concealing treasure-trove is punishable by fine or imprisonment.Coroners have jurisdiction to inquire of treasure-trove, under s. 36 of the Coroners Act, 1887, as theretofore, but not to inquire into any question of title as between the Crown and any other claimant, Attorney General v. Moore, (1893) 1 Ch 676.As to the Roman law on this subject, see Sand. Just....

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