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Quando jus domini regis et subditi concurrunt jus regis praeferri debet
Quando jus domini regis et subditi concurrunt jus regis praeferri debet, means where the title of the king and the title of a subject concur, the King's title must be preferred, Laws of England, 4th Edn.,
Letters patent
to view, with the great seal pendant at the bottom; and are usually directed or addressed by the king to all his subjects at large. And therein they differ from certain other letter of the king, sealed
Querela coram rege a concilio discutienda et terminanda
terminanda, a writ by which one is called to justify a complaint of a trespass made to the King himself, before the King and his council, Reg. Brev. 124. Means a dispute to be discussed and resolved
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Green cloth
Green cloth. The counting-house of the king's household was commonly called the Green Cloth in respect of the green cloth upon the table whereat the
Conservators of the truce and safe conducts
the truce and safe conducts, officers appointed to hear and determine questions relating to the breaking of the king's truce and safe conducts upon the main sea, out of the liberties of the Cinque Ports. It was
Common Pleas, the Court of
presided over by a lord chief justice and five (formerly four) puisne, judges. It was detached from the King's Court (Aula Regis) as early as the reign of Richard I., and the 14th clause of Magna Charta
Collatione facta uni post mortem alterius
their writ to a bishop, for the admitting a clerk in the place of another presented by the King, who during the suit between the King and the bishop's clerk is departed this life; for judgment once
Civil list
The (English) Civil List Acts, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 4), provided for similar grants (with modifications) to King Edward VII.; 1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 15), to King George V.; and 1936
Aurum regin'
Aurum regin', queen-gold. A royal revenue belonging to every queen consort during her marriage with the king, and due from every person who has made a voluntary offering or fine to the king amounting to
Court-leet
once a year within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet, being the King's Court granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors. Its original intent was to view
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