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Masters of the Supreme Court

Sched. III., Part I.), and filling the places of the Masters of the Common Law Courts, the King's Coroner and Attorney, the Master of the Crown Office, the two Record and Writ Clerks, and the three Associates.

Bill of Rights

enacts that every sovereign shall on the first day of the meeting of his first Parliament or at coronation (which shall first happen) make and subscribe a declaration. This form of declaration, being extremely obnoxious to his … of Orange, and afterwards enacted in Parliament, when they became King and Queen, as 1 W. & M., sess. 2, c. 2. Its Preambles sets forth that King James, by the assistance of evil counsellors, endeavoured 'to

Super visum corporis

Super visum corporis [Lat.] (upon view of the body). A coroner's inquest must generally be so held; but the Coroners Act, 1887, allows a view to be dispensed with

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inquest

+ quaerere to seek] 1 : a judicial or official inquiry or examination often before a jury [a coroner's ] compare trial 2 : a body of people (as a jury) assembled to hold a judicial or

Totalia

towel. There is a tenure of lands by the service of waiting with a towel at the king's coronation.

Dilligrout

Dilligrout, pottage formerly made for the king's table on the coronation day. There was a tenure in serjeanty, by which lands were held of the king by the service

Inquest of Office

Inquest of Office, an inquiry made by the king's officer, his sheriff, coroner, or escheat or, virtute officii, or by writ sent to them for that purpose, or by commissioners specially

Master of the Crown Office

Master 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

Mileage

and bailiffs, according to certain scales of fees observed by the officers of the several courts. Formerly, borough coroners received 9d. a mile for every mile beyond two, by s. 171 and Sched. IV. of the Municipal

Sheading

of Man, where the whole island is divided into six sheadings, in each of which there is a coroner or chief constable appointed by a delivery of a rod at the Tinewald Court or annual convention, King's

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