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Quid Juris clamat

writ issued out of the record of a fine, which remained with the custos brevium of the Common Pleas before it was engrossed: it lay for the grantee of a reversion or a remainder, when the particular

Quo minus

form, and in this way the Court of Exchequer obtained a jurisdiction co-extensive with that of the Common Pleas in actions personal. The writ of quo minus was abolished by 2 Wm. 4, c. 39.

Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854

Canal Traffic Act, 1854, (English) an Act by ss. 2 and 3 of which the Courts of Common Pleas in England and Ireland and the Court of Session in Scotland were empowered to compel railway and canal

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Recovery

of two parts: (1) The recovery itself, which was a fictitious rea action in the Court of Common Pleas, carried on to judgment, and founded on the supposition of an adverse claim; and (2) the recovery-deed, which

Exigenter

Exigenter [fr. exigendarius, Lat.], an officer of the Court of Common Pleas, who makes all exigents, proclamations, etc., Cowel.

Faculties, Court of

Faculties, Court of, a jurisdiction or tribunal belonging to the archbishop. It does not hold pleas in any suits, but creates rights to pews, monuments, and particular places and modes of burial. It has

Cassetur breve

Cassetur breve (that the writ be quashed). When the defendant pleaded sufficient matter in abatement and the plaintiff could not deny it, he could either obtain leave to amend

Eire, or eyre

They were anciently sent with a general commission into divers counties to hear such causes as are termed Pleas of the Crown; and this was done for the east of the people, who must else have been

Berghmoth, or Berghmote

a hill, and gemote, an assembly], an assembly or Court upon a hill, held in Derbyshire, for deciding pleas and controversies among the miners, Squire on Anglo-Saxon Government.

coroner

coroner [Anglo-French, recorder of crown pleas, from corone crown] : a public officer whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the

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