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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

CP

CP court of common pleas

exception

property from a conveyance compare reservation 3 : a usually written objection esp. to a judge's ruling [demurrers, pleas, and s for insufficiency of a pleading shall not be used "Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 7(c)"]

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Exigenter

An officer in the Court of Kings Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was to make out exigents The office is now abolished

Filacer

A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process

Placitory

Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading in courts of law

Abstract

Abstract [fr. abstrahere, abstractus; fr. trahere, Lat., to draw], an abridgment or epitome, as the abstract of pleas required in some cases before the Judicature Act; also a purloining. Abstract, a thing looked at purely by

Acts of Court

Acts of Court, legal memoranda of the nature of pleas, especially in Admiralty Courts. See ADMIRALTY.

Assise of darrein presentment

P. Act, 1860, s. 26, quare impedit cannot be brought, an action in the King's Bench (formerly Common Pleas) Division of the High Court of Justice being substituted for it.

Aula Regis, or Regia

in Westminster Hall, where until the Judicature Act it continued under the name of the Court of Common Pleas, or Common Bench, Brac. L. 3, tr. 1, c. 7. See ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE.

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