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Divisions of the High Court
convenient despatch of business, divided into five Divisions, which were called the Chancery, the Queen's Bench, the Common Pleas, the Exchequer, and the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Divisions, the judges of these Divisions being for the most
Durham, County palatine of
to the Court of appeal [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 28]; and as to the Durham Court of Pleas, see 33 Geo. 3, c. 68, and 2 & 3 Vict. c. 16, ss. 4-37, and the (English)
Fine
the levying of a fine:-(1) The original writ of right, usually of covenant, issued out of the Common Pleas against the conusor; and the pr'cipe, which was a summary of the writ and upon which the fine
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Banc (or Banco), sittings in
Thus Bancus Regin' or Bank la Reine is the Queen's Bench; Bancus communium Placitorum, or Bench le Common Pleas, is the Court of Common Pleas, or the Common Bench], the sittings of a Superior Court of Common
Institutes of Lord Coke
first is an extensive comment upon a treatise on tenures compiled by Littleton, a judge of the Common Pleas, temp. Edward IV. This comment is a rich mine of valuable Common Law learning, collected and heaped together
Prothonotaries
Prothonotaries, officers in the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer, who were superseded by the masters, 7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 30; 1 Steph.
Staunforde
Staunforde, the author of the Pleas of the Crown, in the reign of Philip and Mary. This book is written in French; the method
Latin
in times past would abate original writs; though it would not make void any judicial writ, declaration, or plea, etc. (3) Words of art, known only to the sages of the law, and not to grammarians; called
Green cloth
servants. (5) For payment of the wages of the king's servants. The officers of the counting-house never held plea of anything, 4 Inst. 131.
In forma pauperis
(Forma Pauperis) Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 22), which gives the House power to refuse a petition for leave to sue.
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