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Oyer and Terminer
Matched in: Term Oyer and Terminer
Commission of oyer and terminer
Matched in: Term Commission of oyer and terminer
Oyer and Terminer, Courts of, and General Gaol Delivery
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Articles of the peace
of the peace, a complaint exhibited either in the King's Bench Division of the High Court, Court of Oyer and Terminer, or Court of Summary Jurisdiction, when any one has just cause to fear that some one will burn
Assize, or assise
the judges being usually assigned to every circuit. See CIRCUITS. The judges have four several commissions: (1) of oyer and terminer, directed to them and many other gentlemen of the county, by which they are empowered to try treasons,
High Court of Justice
at Lancaster; (9) The Court of Pleas at Durham; (10) The Courts created by Commissions of Assize, of Oyer and Terminer, and of Gaol Delivery, or any such Commissions.' The London Court of Bankruptcy, which was first included in
High Steward, Court of the Lord
by a grand jury of freeholders in the King's Bench, or at the assizes before a judge of oyer and terminer, it is removed by a writ of certiorari into the Court of the Lord High Steward, which alone
Processum continuando
the continuance of process after the death of the Chief Justice or other justices in the commission of oyer and terminer, Reg. Brev. 128.
Recorder of London
Recorder of London, one of the justices of oyer and terminer, and a justice of the peace of the quorum for putting the laws in execution for the preservation
Sessions of the peace
justices by the commission o the peace and certain Acts of Parliament. The Court is a Court of oyer and terminer, and a Court of record, and not a Court of inferior jurisdiction. The jurisdictional is criminal an civil,
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