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Coroner

Coroner. A very ancient officer at the Common Law, so called

Inquest, Coroner's. see CORONER.

Coroner of the King's Household hath an exempt jurisdiction within the

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Coroner's, absence for any lawful or reasonable cause means that a

Queen's Coroner and Attorney, an officer on the Crown side of the

coroner [Anglo-French, recorder of crown pleas, from corone crown] : a

Coronation oath. At the public ceremony of crowning a sovereign of

Custos placitorum coron' (the keeper of the pleas of the Crown). The custos

Jus Coron', the right of the Crown.

which case it belongs to the Crown: see Jervis on Coroners, p. 2. Bracton defines it, vetus depositio pecuni'. Concealing treasure-trove

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