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Home Dictionary Name: divisionDivisions of the High Court
Divisions of the High Court (see new Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 1-5). The High Court of Justice, crated by the Judicature Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 66). was by s. 31 of that Act, for the more convenient despatch of business, divided into five Divisions, which were called the Chancery, the Queen's Bench, the Common Pleas, the Exchequer, and the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Divisions, the judges of these Divisions being for the most part those who sat in the courts whose jurisdiction is transferred to the High Court (ss. 5, 16); but s. 32 of the same Act gave the Sovereign in Council power to reduce or increase the number of Divisions or the number of judges attached to each Division; and an Order in Council under this section which came into force on the 26th February, 1881, united in one 'Queen's Bench Division' (since the accession of King Edward the Seventh styled the' King's bench Division') the judges attached to the Common Pleas and Exchequer Divisions; so that (see Judicature ...
Queen's Bench Division
Queen's Bench Division, means the English court, formerly known as the Queen's Bench or King's Bench, that presides over tort and contract actions, applications for judicial review, and some Magistrate-court appeals, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259.The jurisdiction of the Court of Queen's Bench was assigned, by s. 34 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1873, to the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice; and by Order in Council under s. 32 of the same Act, the Common Pleas and Exchequer Divisions were, in February 1881, merged in the same 'Queen's Bench Division,' which began to be styled, after the death of the late Queen Victoria in January, 1901, the 'King's Bench Division.' As to assignment of business to, see (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 56 (2)....
Exchequer division
Exchequer division. A division of the High Court of Justice, to which the special business of the Court of Exchequer was specially assigned by s. 34 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1873. Merged in the King's Bench Division by Order in Council under s. 31 of that Act, made in February, 1881. See now (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 4....
Family Division
Family Division : a division of the High Court of Justice having jurisdiction over matters of family law and uncontested probate matters ...
Electoral divisions
Electoral divisions, divisions of an administrative county for the purpose of each of them returning a member of the County Council under the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51)....
benefit of division
benefit of division see benefit ...
divisible
divisible : capable of being divided esp. into independent parts (as promises or interests) [a contract] compare entire di·vis·i·bil·i·ty [də-vi-zə-bi-lə-tē] n ...
Divisibility
The quality of being divisible the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation...
Divisive
Indicating division or distribution...
Affinis dicitur, cum due congnationes, inter se divise, per nuptias copulantur, et altera ad alterius fines accidit
Affinis dicitur, cum due congnationes, inter se divise, per nuptias copulantur, et altera ad alterius fines accidit [Lat.], Persons are said to be bound by affinity when two families, divided from one another, are united by marriage, and each approaches the confines of the other....
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