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Central Criminal Court
Central Criminal Court. This court was created by the (English) Central Criminal Court Act, 1834 (4 & 5 Wm. , c. 36), for the trial of all cases of treasons, murders, felonies, and misdemeanours committed within...
Chamberiain
Chamberiain [fr. Chambellan, Fr., custos cubiculi, cubicularius, Lat.], a person who has the management or direction of a chamber or chambers. It is variously used in our laws, statutes, and chronicles. Among the most important are...
Paper Office
Paper Office (in the Palace of Whitehall), an ancient office where all the public writings, matters of State and council, proclamations, letters, intelligences, negotiations of the King's ministers abroad, and, generally, all the papers and dispatches...
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Pre-audience
Pre-audience, the right of one to be heard before another; as of the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General before King's Counsel, of King's Counsel before other barristers, and of barristers generally in the order of their call.
Post fine
Post fine, a duty otherwise called the King's silver, formerly paid to the King for the licentia concordandi, or leave to agree the suit, on the levying of a fine, 2 Bl. Com. 350. See FINE.
Pimp-tenure
Pimp-tenure, a very singular and odious kind of tenure mentioned by our old writers, 'Wilhelmus Hoppeshort tenet dimidiam virgatam terr' per servitium custodiendi sex damisellas, scil. Meretrices ad usum domini regis.'-12 Edw. 1. It is suggested...
Peer
Peer, an equal; one of the same rank; a member of the House of Lords, as either Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, or Baron, or Scots or presumably Irish representative peer, although the status of Irish representative...
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a tribunal of Privy Councilors, established by 2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 92, for the disposal of appeals to the Sovereign in Council. It consists of the Lord Chancellor,...
Office
Office, an employment, either judicial, municipal (see CORPORATE OFFICE), civil, military, or ecclesiastical. As to obtaining offices by desert only, the repealed 12 Ric. 2, c. 2, enacted that-- The Chancellor, Treasurer, . . . the...
O. Ni
O. Ni. It was the course of the Exchequer, as soon as a sheriff or escheat or entered into his account for issues, amerciaments, etc., to mark upon his head O. Ni which denoted oneratur, nisi...
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