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Privilege
Barristers are privileged from arrest, eundo, morando et redeundo, going to coming from, and abiding in court--this includes judge's chambers; so clergymen as to divine service. See also the following titles and DISTRESS; LIBEL. The word privilege
Enlargement or abridgement of time
applications for condonation of delay in filing special leave petition are excepted from the business of a Chamber Judge. The natural presumption is that but for the exception the Rule would have included also applications for condonation … that applications for condonation of delay in filing special leave petition are excepted from the business of a Chamber Judge. The natural presumption is that but for the exception the Rule would have included also applications for
axation of costs
them [s. 66 (5)] The Taxing Master's Certificate can be reviewed by application within fourteen days to a judge in chambers [(English) R.S.C. Ord. LXV., r. 27 (41)], but there is no further appeal except by leave
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Amputation of right hand
of right hand, an ancient punishment for a blow given in a Superior Court; or for assaulting a judge sitting in the Court. it was also inflicted by the Star Chamber for duelling or striking a blow … Superior Court; or for assaulting a judge sitting in the Court. it was also inflicted by the Star Chamber for duelling or striking a blow within the precincts of a royal palace
Exchequer Chamber, Court of
a Court of mere debate, such causes from the other Courts being sometimes adjourned into it as the judges upon argument found to be of great weight and difficulty, before any judgment was given upon them in … Exchequer Chamber, Court of, a tribunal of error and appeal. First, it existed in former times as a Court of
Interrogatories
interrogatories can only be administered in the High Court by leave of the Court, i.e., a Master at Chambers, and the particular questions proposed to be asked must be submitted for his approval; a sum, generally 5l., … 1854, s. 51, which, however, only allowed it to be exercised by leave of the Court or a judge. Under the present practice interrogatories can only be administered in the High Court by leave of the Court,
Session, Court of, in Scotland
bills, i.e., petitions to the Court during session, and performs the other duties of junior Lord Ordinary. The chambers of the Parliament House, in which the First and Second Divisions of the Court of Session hold their … Court of, in Scotland, the supreme civil Court of Scotland, instituted A.D. 1532, and formerly consisting of fifteen judges-that number being reduced in 1830, by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 69, s. 20, to
Sittings
and see also GUILDHALL SITTINGS; WESTMINSTER; and VACATION. Sittings at the Royal Courts of Justice include sittings in chambers as well as in Court, Petty v. Daniel, (1886) 34 Ch D 172 … 52 (replacing the (English) Judicature Act, 1873, s. 30), that, subject to rules of Court, such number of judges of the High Court as may be requisite having regard to the business to be disposed of shall,
Discharge of a jury
due course on the termination of the trial by verdict (or sentence); or by the discretion of the judge determining that they are so exhausted as to be incapable of continuing their deliberations, or so divided as … by another jury. See Winsor v. The Queen, (1866) LR 1 QB 289 (390), in which the Exchequer Chamber held this upon writ of error in a trial for murder in which the jury had declared at
King's Bench
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 … 2 Wm. 4, c. 39, which abolished these fictitious proceedings. Error lay from this Court to the Exchequer Chamber. The jurisdiction of this court, under the name of the Queen's Bench, was assigned, by s. 34 of
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