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Common Pleas, the Court of

Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster, presided over by a lord chief justice and five (formerly four) puisne, judges. It was detached from the King's Court (Aula Regis) as early as the reign of Richard I.,

Election petitions

petitions for inquiry into the validity of the elections of members of Parliament. They are tried by a puisne judge of the High Court in the King's Bench Division [(English) Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, s. 11; the

Exchequer, Court of

Record, and its judges were six (formerly five) in number, consisting of one chief and five (formerly four) puisne barons. This Court was made a Division of the High Court of Justice (Jud. Act, 1873, ss. 31,

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King's Bench

record, and the Supreme Court of Common Law in the kingdom, consisting of a chief justice and four puisne justices, who were by their office the sovereign conservators of the peace and supreme coroners of the land.

Priority

the trust instrument are provided by the section, see Dearle v. Hall. In regard to mortgages: before 1926, puisne mort-gagees to whom the equity of redemption was conveyed in succession obtained priority by the order in date

Simplex justiciarius

Simplex justiciarius, a style formerly used for any puisne judge who was not chief in any court.

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