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King's proctor

King's proctor, the proctor or solicitor representing the Crown in the Probate and Divorce Court. In proper cases it is his duty to intervene in petitions for dissolution or for declaration of nullity of marriage to defeat collusion or the suppression of material facts. In his official capacity he cannot intervene to show cause against a decree nisi for dissolution of marriage being made absolute without the leave of the Court, Gray v. Gray, (1861) 30 LJP&M 96. In the case of an unsuccessful intervention the King's Proctor may be condemned in costs, Carter v. Carter, 1910 P. 151. See (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 181....

King's widow

King's widow, a widow of the King's tenant-in-chief, who was obliged to take oath in Chancery that she would not marry without the King's leave....

S.P.,

S.P., sine prole without issue; d.s.p. means 'demisit sine prole,' i.e. 'died without issue.'...

King's evil

King's evil, scrofula, formerly supposed to be cured by the King touching the sufferer and hanging round his neck a white ribbon to which was fastened a gold coin; for an account of the ceremony of 'touching,' see Macaulay's Hist. Of England, ch. xiv....

Knight's fee

Knight's fee [feodum militare, Lat.], twelve plough-lands, the value of which was 20l. per annum (2 Inst. 596). By the grant of a knight's fee, land, meadow, and pasture may pass as parcel of it, and even a manor if it is usually called so. Consult Shep. Touch. 92, 93. Selden contends that it was as much as the king was pleased to grant upon condition of having the service of a knight, Tit. Of Hon., p. ii., c. v., ss. 17, 26. See TENURE....

Lloyd's bonds

Lloyd's bonds. Instruments under the seal of a railway company, admitting the indebtedness of the company to a specified amount to the obligee, with a covenant to pay him such amount with interest on a future day. So called from the name of the counsel who originally settled such a bond. All such 'loan notes' issued otherwise than under the authority of some statute are invalid, and by the (English) Railway Regulation Act, 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 85), s. 17, the railway company issuing them forfeits to the Crown a sum equal to the sum for which any note purports to be a security....

Mayor's Court, London

Mayor's Court, London. See LORD MAYOR'S COURT....

Palmer's Act

Palmer's Act, the (English) Central Criminal Court Act, 1856 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 16), enabling a person accused of a crime committed out of the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court to be tried in that Court, in order to give him a trial free from local prejudice. So called from the poisoner William Palmer, of Rugeley, in Staffordshire, who was tried and convicted at the Central Criminal Court in 1856. See Trial of William Palmer, 1912, Edn. by George H. Knott.And see HINDE PALMER'S ACT....

Queen's Coroner and Attorney

Queen's Coroner and Attorney, an officer on the Crown side of the Queen's Bench (6 & 7 Vict. c. 20), who by the (English) Judicature Officers) Act, 1879, became a 'Master of the Supreme Court.'...

Queen's prison

Queen's prison, means a prison established in 1842 in Southwark, to be used for debtors and criminals confined under authority of the superior courts at Westminster, the highest court of admiralty, and the bankruptcy laws, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259....

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