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Home Dictionary Name: queenQueen's Bench Division
Queen's Bench Division, means the English court, formerly known as the Queen's Bench or King's Bench, that presides over tort and contract actions, applications for judicial review, and some Magistrate-court appeals, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259.The jurisdiction of the Court of Queen's Bench was assigned, by s. 34 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1873, to the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice; and by Order in Council under s. 32 of the same Act, the Common Pleas and Exchequer Divisions were, in February 1881, merged in the same 'Queen's Bench Division,' which began to be styled, after the death of the late Queen Victoria in January, 1901, the 'King's Bench Division.' As to assignment of business to, see (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 56 (2)....
Bounty of Queen Anne
Bounty of Queen Anne, given by royal charter, which was confirmed by Queen Anne (2 Anne, c. 11), whereby all the revenue of first-fruits and tenths (see those titles) which belonged to the English Crown was transferred by Queen Anne to trustees for ever, called 'Governors,' to form a perpetual fund for the augmentation of the maintenance of the poor clergy. After the appropriation of the revenue arising from the payment of first-fruits and tenths to the augmentation of small livings, it was considered a proper extension of this principle to exempt the smaller livings from the incumbrance of those demands; and, for that end, the bishops of each diocese were directed to inquire and certify into the Exchequer what livings did not exceed 50l. a year, according to the improved value at that time; and it was further provided that such livings should be discharged from those dues in future. It has been still further regulated by subsequent statutes, especially by the Queen Anne's Bounty Act, ...
Queening
Any one of several kinds of apples as summer queening scarlet queening and early queening An apple called the queening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago...
Queen's Bench
Queen's Bench, means historically, the highest common-law court in England, presided over by the reigning monarch. The jurisdiction of this court now lies with the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice; when a king begins to reign, the name automatically changes to King's Bench. Also termed court of Queen's Bench, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259.Queen's Bench. See KING'S BENCH....
Marshal of the Queen's bench
Marshal of the Queen's bench, an officer who had the custody of the Queen's Bench Prison. The 5 & 6 Vict. c. 22 abolished this office, and substituted an officer called Keeper of the Queen's Prison....
Queen
Queen [fr. cwen, Sax., a wife], a woman who is sovereign of a kingdom. The queen regent, regnant, or sovereign is she who holds the Crown in her own right, and such queen of England has the same powers, prerogatives, rights, dignities, and duties as if she had been a king, the law being so expressly declared in 1554 by 1 Mary, sess. 3, c. 1. Consult Jac. Law Dict....
Queen's Counsel
Queen's Counsel (abbreviated Q.C.). See KING'S COUNSEL (abbreviated K.C.). All Queen's Counsel at the death of the late Queen Victoria became King's Counsel without any new appointment....
Queen's Bench
Queen's Bench : a division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales that hears civil cases (as commercial cases) and appeals of criminal cases used during the reign of a queen compare king's bench ...
Queen truss
A truss framed with queen posts a queen post truss...
Anne, Queen, Bounty of
Anne, Queen, Bounty of, See BOUNTY OF QUEEN ANNE....
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