Palace

Palace. A palace, which is a royal residence, is privileged from the execution of legal process within its precints; but the privilege does not, it seems, extend to a royal palace, e.g., Hampton Court, which is not a royal residence: see A.-G.v. Dakin, (1869-70) LR 4 HL 338, where there was a remarkable difference of opinion amongst the judges, Combe v. De la Bere, (1881) 22 Ch D 316....

Palace of Westminster

Palace of Westminster, the official name for the buildings which contain the Houses of Parliament (28 Hen. 8, c. 12)....

Palace Court

Palace Court. An inferior court of the sovereign at Westminster. Abolished by 12 & 13 Vict. c. 101. See MARSHALSEA, COURT OF....

Palatial

Of or pertaining to a palace suitable for a palace resembling a palace royal magnificent as palatial structures...

palatine

Of or pertaining to a palace or to a high officer of a palace...

Court

Court, compensation officer appointed under (English) Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 is not a 'Court' within the meaning of s. 195(1)(b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure Code 1973, Keshab Moroyan Banerjee v. State of Bihar, AIR 2000 SC 485 (490). [Bihar Land Reforms Act (30 of 1950), s. 19]Court, means the principle civil court of original jurisdiction in a district and including the High Court in exercise of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction, having jursidiction to decide the questions forming the subject matter of suit, but does not incude any civil court of a grade inferior to such civil court or any court of small causes.S. 2(*) Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, Raipur Development Authority v. Sarin Construction Company, Raipur, AIR 2006 Chattisgarh 12.The tribunal which is to exercise the jurisdiction for executing the decree in question is 'a court' within the scope of s. 45C of the Banking Companies Act, Ram Narain v. Simla Banking and Industrial Co. Ltd., AIR 1956 S...

Marshalsea, Court of the

Marshalsea, Court of the, originally held before the steward and marshal of the royal house of administer justice between the sovereign's domestic servants, that they might not be drawn into other courts, and their service become lost. It held pleas of all trespasses committed within the verge of the Court (twelve miles round the sovereign's residence), where only one of the parties was in the royal service (in which case the inquest was taken by a jury of the country); and if all debts, contracts, and covenants where both of the contracting parties belonged to the royal household, and then the inquest was composed of men of the household only. But this Court being ambulatory, Charles I. erected a new Court of record, called the curia palatii, or Palace Court, to be held before the steward of the household and knight marshal, and the steward of the Court or his deputy, with jurisdiction to hold plea of all manner of personal actions whatsoever which should arise between any parties wit...

Precinct

Precinct. 1. A constable's district. 2. The immediate neighbourhood of a palace or court....

Kings peace

Kings peace, means a royal subject's right to be free from crime (to 'have peace') in certain areas subject to the King's immediate control, such as the King's palace or highway. A breach of the peace in one of these areas subjected the offender to punishment in the King's Court. Overtime, the area subject to the King's peace grew, which in turn increased the jurisdiction of the royal courts. Also written King's Peace, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 875....

Mint

Mint [fr. moneta, Lat.; mynet, Sax., money, from mynetian, to coin], the place where money is coined. The Mint of Great Britain is situated near the Tower of London. By the (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 10) (repealing various Acts), the laws relating to the coinage and Mint are consolidated and amended. See COIN.Also, a place of privilege in Southwark, near the king's prison, where persons formerly sheltered themselves from justice under the pretext that it was an ancient palace of the Crown. The privilege has long been abolished....

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