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King's Bench. The Court of King's or Queen's bench (so called because the King used formerly to sit there in person (though the judges determined the causes), the style of the Court still being coram ipso rege, or coram ipsa regina) was a Court of record, and the Supreme Court of Common Law in the kingdom, consisting of a chief justice and four puisne justices, who were by their office the sovereign conservators of the peace and supreme coroners of the land.This court, which was the remnant of the aula regia, was not, nor could be, from the very nature and constitution of it, fixed to any certain place, but might follow the King's person wherever he went, for which reason all process issuing out of this Court in the King's name was returnable 'ubicunque fuerimus in Anglia.' For some centuries, and until the opening of the Royal Courts, the court usually sat at Westminster, being an ancient palace of the Crown, but might remove with the King as he thought proper to command.The jurisdict...
Prohibition
Prohibition, a writ to forbid any court to proceed in any cause there depending, on the suggestion that the cognizance thereof belongs not to such Court. It is a remedy provided by the Common Law against the encroachment of jurisdiction.The writ issued not only out of the King's Bench, but also out of the Courts of Chancery, Exchequer, and Common Pleas, and now issues out of the High Court of Justice, on application by motion supported by affidavits for a rule to show cause (Rules 70, 71, of Crown Office Rules, 1906), to any inferior Court concerning itself with any matter not within its jurisdiction. If either the judge or a party proceed after such prohibition, an attachment may be had against them for contempt, at the discretion of the Court that awarded it; and an action for damages will lie against them, by the party injured.Sometimes the point is too doubtful to be decided upon motion, and the party applying is directed to declare in prohibition, setting forth concisely so much o...
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