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Special case

and 13 & 14 Vict. c. 35 [(English) Turner's Act]. Where at a trial in a Court of oyer and terminer, gaol delivery, or quarter sessions, any question of law arises on motion in arrest of judgment

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

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

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Profert in curi'

allegation that he showed the deed in Court, it being, in fact, retained in his own custody. See OYER. Abolished by C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 55.

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.

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,

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

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

Traversing Indictment

or postpone the trial of any indictment found against him at any session of the peace, session of oyer and terminer, or session of gaol delivery; but if the Court upon the application of the person so

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