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Exchequer Chamber, Court of

to revision by the judges of the other two, sitting collectively. See 27 Eliz. c. 8 (error from Queen's Bench), and 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 70, s. 8 (error from the three Courts).

Coke, Sir Edward

1578, counsel in Shelley's case (see that title), Speaker of the House of Commons, Solicitor-General and Attorney-General under Queen Elizabeth, knighted by James I. shortly after his accession in 1603, made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas … after his accession in 1603, made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1606 and of the King's Bench in 1613, 'taking particular delight,' writes Lord Campbell in his Lives of the Chief Justices, 'in styling himself

Admiralty Court

Admiralty Court, includes the Admiralty Court of Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice and any other court exercising Admiralty Jurisdiction. Halsbury's Laws of

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Admiralty proceedings

Admiralty proceedings, means proceedings in the Admiralty Court of the Queen's Bench Divison of the High Court of Justice and in any other court exercising Admiralty Jurisdiction. Halsbury's Laws

Superior courts

Superior courts, the Courts of Chancery, King's (or Queen's) bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, at Westminster, were so called. See these Courts treated of under the proper

Tested

Chancellor if issuing from the Court of Chancery, or of the Lord Chief Justice if issuing from the Queen's Bench, etc.

Postman

Exchequer Division of the High Court, who had precedence in motions till the Exchequer was merged in the Queen's (now King's) Bench Divi-sion

Bail Court

Bail Court, sometimes called the Practice Court, was an auxiliary of the Court of Queen's Bench. It heard and determined ordinary matters, and disposed of common motions, Consult Chit. Arch. Prac.

Paper-days

proposed to hear the cases entered in the Special Paper for argument. They were also fixed in the Queen's Bench, Crown Paper-days for disposing of business on the Crown side of the Court. On these days no

Semper pr'sumitur pro negante

Beauclerk (formerly Holden), 1906 AC 148]; and if any cort be equally divided [as was the Court of Queen's Bench in Reg. v. Archbishop of Canterbury, (1848) 11 QB 483, on the question whether the opposition to

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