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De fide et officio judicis non reciptur qu'stio; sed de scientia, sive error sit juris aut facti
sit juris aut facti. Bacon.--(A question cannot be admitted as to the good faith and honesty of a judge; but it may as to his knowledge, whether he be mistaken as to the law or the fact.)
De lunatico inquirendo, writ
De lunatico inquirendo, writ, a process formerly issued to inquire into the condition of a person's mind. Those judges [see (English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 17; Jud. Act, 1875, s. 7] to whom, by special authority from
Dedimus potstatem
writ or commission to one or more private persons for the speeding of some act appertaining to a judge or a Court. it is granted most commonly upon a suggestion that the party who is to do
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Discovery
right, the repelling of an unjust demand, or the redress of a wrong; an infirmity which the equity judges cured by compelling such a party to disclose the fact, or discover the document, upon his oath, in
Distress
a distress for rent unless he be authorized so to act by the certificate of a county Court judge, and empowers the Lord Chancellor to make rules from time to time for regulating the security to be
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the presiding judge in the court of Common Pleas, and afterwards in the Common Pleas Division of the High Court of
Divisions of the High Court
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
Murder
aversion for the nature or the manner of commission of the crime and it is possible that different judges may react differently to these situations and moreover, some judges may not regard this factor as having any
Marshal or Mareschal
denotes an officer who has the care or command of horses. An officer called a marshal attends each judge on the assizes (being paid by the Treasury two guineas a day during the continuance of the circuit).
Masters of the Common Law Courts
Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 30, and their duties were to tax costs, compute damages, attend the judges in court, etc. These officers became, under the Judicatures Act, officers of the Supreme Court, and were attached
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