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Record, Courts of

Court of Appeal, the High Court and a few others. The Mayor's Court of London, the County Courts, Coroner's Courts, and others are Inferior Courts of Record, of which the County Courts are the most important. Every

Photographs

by the (English) Post Office Act, 1935, s. 13 and 1st Sch.] Photographing or sketching a judge, magistrate, coroner or any litigant, juror, etc., in Court or its precincts is an offence under the (English) Criminal Justice

Open Court

they commit a prisoner for trial at assizes or sessions (Indictable Offences Act, 1848, s. 19). Whether a coroner's court is an open Court is a matter of doub if it is not a Court of Justice;

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Municipal corporation

do not possess them. Where there is a separate Court of Quarter Sessions there is also a borough coroner, appointed by the council. A considerable number of small 'unreformed corporations,' in which there were a mayor and

Melius inquirendum, ad

on finding an office for the king, Fitz. N.B. 255. For instance of a second inquiry before a coroner, see Reg. v. Carter (1876) 45 LJQB 711; and for express legalization of such inquiry, see (English) Coroners

Wreck

wrecks was frequently granted to lords of manors as a royal franchise. It is a branch of the coroner's office to inquire concerning shipwrecks and certify whether there has been a wreck or not, and who is

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.

Coronatre exonerando

Coronatre exonerando, a writ for the removal of a coroner, for a cause which is to be therein assigned, as that he is engaged in other business, or

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

elisor

to act in the stead of a sheriff when the sheriff and any other authorized official (as a coroner) are unable or unqualified to act

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