A court of record, established in England iu the reign of Henry VIII. For the sur-vey and management of the valuable fruits of tenure, a court of record was created by St. 32 Hen. VIII. c. 46. called the **Court of the King’s wards.” To tills was annexed, by St. 33 Hen. VIII. c. 22, the “Court of Liveries;” so that it then became the “Court of wards and Liveries.” 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 258. This court wns not only for the management of “wards,” properly so called, but also of idiots and natural fools in the king’s custody, and for licenses to be grant-ed to the king’s widows to marry, and flues to be mnde for marrying without his license. Id. 259. It was abolished by St 12 Car.
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A high court, formerly held in England by the steward and marshal of the king’s household, haviug jurisdiction of all actions against the king’s peace within the bounds of tlie household for twelve miles, which circuit was called the “verge.” Crabb, Eng. Law, 185. It had also jurisdiction of actions of debt and covenant, where both the parties were of the household. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 235. 247
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A court for the hearing of appeals by owners or masters of ships, from orders for the detention of un-safe ships, made by the English hoard of trade, under the merchant shipping act, 1876, § 6
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Courts ofcrlm-lnal Jurisdiction existing in California. New York, and one or two other of the United States
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This was an English court of very ancient origin, but new-modeled by St. 3 Hen. VII. c. 1, aud 21 Hen. VIII. c. 20, consisting of divers lords, spiritual and temporal, being prlvy councillors, together with two judges of the courts of common law, without the lnterveu-tion of any jury. The jurisdiction extended legally over riots, perjury, misbehavior of sheriffs, and other misdemeanors contrary to the laws of the land; yet It was after-wards stretched to the asserting of all proc-lamations and orders of state, to the vindi-cating of illegal commissions and grants of monopolies; holding for honorable that which it pleased, and for just that which it profited, and becoming both a court of law
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Inferior courts, in England, having local jurisdic-tion in claims for small debts, established in various parts of the kingdom by special acts of parliament. They were abolished in 1846, and the modern county courts (q. v.) took their place. 3 Steph. Comm. 283
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The name of the highest court of civil jurisdiction lu Scot-land. It was composed of fifteen judges, now of thirteen. It sits in two divisions. The lord president and three ordinary lords form the first dlvlslon; the lord justice clerk and three other ordinary lords form the sec-ond division. There are five permanent lords ordinary attached equally to both di-vislons; the last appointed of whom offlci-ates on the bills, i. e., petitions preferred to the court during the session, and performs the other duties of junior lord ordinary. The chambers of the parliament house in which the first and second divisions hold thelr 8lttings are called the “Inner house;” those in which the lords ordlnary sit as 8ingle judges to hear motions and causes are collectively called the “outer house.” The nomination and appointment of the judges is in the crown, wharton
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A federal court created by act of Congress in 1891 (26 Stat 854 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 765]), to hear and determine claims hy private parties to lands within the public domain, where such claims originated under Spanish or Mexican grants, and had not al-reedy been confirmed by Congress or other-wise adjudicated. The existence and au-thority of this court were to cease and de-term ine at the end of the year 1895.
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In English law. The name of a court established in 1857, under the probate act of that year, (20 A 21 VicL c. 77,) to be held in London, to which court was transferred tbe testamen-tary jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts. 2 Steph. Comm. 192. By the judicature acts, this court is merged in the high court of Justice
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A court established hy statute 43 Eliz. c. 12, to determine in a summary way all causes between merchants, concerning policies of insurance. Crabb, Eng. Law, 503
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A species of private courts of a limited though extensive Jurisdiction, which
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The low-est (and most expeditious) of the courts of justice known to the older law of England. It is supposed to have been so called from the dusty feet of the suitors. It was a court of record Incident to every fair and market, was held by the steward, and had Jurisdiction to administer justice for all commer-clal injuries and minor offenses done in that same fair or market, (not a preceding one.) An appeal lay to the courts at west-minster. This court long ago fell into die-use. 3 Bl. Comm. 32
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A court of the county palatine of Durham, having a local common-law jurisdictlon. It was abolished by the judicature act, which transferred its jurisdiction to the high court. Jud. Act 1873, | 16; 3 Bl. Comm. 79
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An Inferior court, possessing a very ancient Jurisdiction over causes of action arising within the bor-ough of Liverpool. It appears to have been also called the “Borough Court of Liver-pool.” It has the same jurisdiction in ad-miralty matters as the Lancashire county court Rosc. Adm. 75
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A spiritual court in England, belng a branch of, and annexed to, the Court of Arches. It has a jurisdiction over all those parishes dis-persed through the province of Canterbury, in the midst of other dioceses, which are exempt from the ordinary’s jurisdiction, and subject to the metropolitan only. AU ecclesiastical causes arising within these peculiar or exempt jurisdictions are originally cog-nizable hy this court, from which an appeal lies to the Court of Arches. 3 Steph. Comm. 431; 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 104
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In
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This court had jurisdiction of personal actions arising within twelve miles ot the palace at whitehall. Abolished by 12 & 13 Vict. c. 101, 3 Steph. Comm. 317, note
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In English law. The court of the lord mayor and al-.dermen of London, which has the care of those orphans whose parent died in London and was free of the city
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In English law. A court for the trial of cases of treason and felony. The commis-sloners of assise and nisi prius are judges selected by the king and appointed aud au-thorized under the great seal, including usually two of the Judges at westmlnster, and sent out twice a year Into most of the counties of England, for the trial (with a jury of the county) of causes then depend-lng at westmlnster, both civil and criminal. They sit by virtue of several commissions, each of which, in reality, constitutes them a separate and distinct court. The commis-sion of oyer and terminer gives them author-ity for the trial of treasons and felonies; that of general gaol delivery empowers them to try every prisoner then in gaol for what-ever offense; so that, altogether, they pos-sess full criminal jurisdiction
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In some of the United States (e. g., Georgia) this name is given to the probate or surrogate’s court, or the court having the usual jurisdiction in respect to the proving of wills and the ad-ministration of decedents’ estates. Veach v. Rice, 131 U. S. 293, 9 Sup. Ot 730, 33 L. Ed. 163
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In American law. The name of a court formerly established iu South Carolina for the trial of slaves and free persons of color for criminal offenses
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A court which has jurisdlction of all trespasses com
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