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District Registry
prothonotaries in Liverpool, Manchester, and Preston, the district registrar of the Court of Admiralty at Liverpool, and the county Court registrars in the other places named, have been appointed district registrars. Proceedings in district registries are regulated … registrars may administer oaths or do other things as provided by rules or a special order of the Court (s. 62). Power, however, is given to a judge to remove proceedings from a district registry to the
Conscience, Courts of
parties, or other witnesses, and make such order therein as was consonant to equity and good conscience. The county courts established in 1846 have superseded them.
Barrister, or Barrastor
Supreme Court, but not in Bankruptcy business or before the Railway and Canal Commission, where, as in the County Courts, they are heard along with solicitors. For a list of the posts for which barristers are qualified, with
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state courts
state courts courts established by various state governments, including county and local courts. Source: Federal Judicial Center
nisi prius
at the Court of Westminster on a certain day unless the judges of assize previously come to the county from which the jury is to be returned] : a court of record that tries an issue of … the words introducing a clause in an English writ commanding a sheriff to provide a jury at the Court of Westminster on a certain day unless the judges of assize previously come to the county from which
Judicial authority
a proposal and an opposition and it is not necessary to be strictly a court, R. v. London County Council, (1931) 2 KB 215: 100 LJKB 760: 144 LT 464 (CA) … SCC 27: (1978) 1 SCR 732. Is defined as it is not necessary that it should be a court in the sense in which this court is a court; it is enough if it is exercising, after
Gemot
was sometimes summoned by the ringing of the mootbell. Its regular meetings were annual. (2) the shire-gemot, or county Court, which met twice during the year. (3) The burg-gemot, which met thrice in the year. (4) The … sometimes summoned by the ringing of the mootbell. Its regular meetings were annual. (2) the shire-gemot, or county Court, which met twice during the year. (3) The burg-gemot, which met thrice in the year. (4) The hundred-gemot,
Local actions
particular locality, as actions for trespasses to land, in which the venue must have been laid in the county where the cause of action arose. Real actions and the mixed action of ejectment were local: but personal … then local, see Mostyn v. Fabrigas, (1775) 1 Smith, L.C., and 2 Chit. Arch. Prac. And see COUNTY COURT (JURISDICTION), and VENUE.
Precedence or precedency
Knights of the Bath. ' Attorney-General. ' Solicitor-General. ' The King's Advocate-General. ' Serjeants-at-law. ' Knights Bachelors. ' County Court Judges. || Baronets' eldest sons. || Knights' eldest sons. || Baronets' younger sons. || Knights' younger sons. … Chief Justice of England. || Master of the Rolls. For the present precedence of the Judges of the Court of Appeal and of the High Court of Justice, see Jud. Act, 1925, s. 16, replacing Jud. Act,
Public Authorities, Protection of
the plaintiff deprived of costs, or the defendant may plead the general issue. As to taxation in the county Court of solicitor and client costs under this Act, see Tory v. Dorchester Corporation, (1907) 1 KB 393. … deprives a plaintiff of costs if he fail to recover more than the sum tendered or paid into Court by the defendant; besides (4) empowering the Court to award costs as between solicitor and client to the
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