An ancient court of the Cinque Ports, having jurisdiction in maritime matters, and particularly over pilots (lodemen
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In Eng-lish law. A court constituted for the trial of scholars or privileged persons connected with the university at oxford or Cambridge who are indicted for treason, felony, or mayhem
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A Scotch court of general criminal jurisdiction of all offenses committed in any part of Scotland, both to try causes and to review decisions of Inferior criminal courts. It is composed of five lords of session with the lord president or justice-clerk as president. It also lias ap-pellate jurisdiction in civil causes Involving small amounts. An appeal lies to the house of lords
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In a wide sense, any duly constituted tribunal administering tlie laws of the state or nation; iu a narrower sense, a court proceeding according to the course of the common law and governed by its rules and principles, as contrasted with a “court of equity.”
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In English law. A court sometimes appointed by tlie crown to ascertain whether it be proper to resort to extreme measures against a person charged before a court-martial
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In English law. The principal of the forest courts
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A court having Ju-risdiction to hear and redress injuries or affronts to a man’s honor or personal dignity, of a nature not cognisable by the ordinary courts of law, or encroachments upon his rights in respect to heraldry, coat-armor, right of precedence, and the like, it wns oue of the functions of the Court of Chivalry (q. v.) in England to sit and act as a court of honor. 3 Bl. Comm. 104. The name is also given in some European countries to a trl-bunal of army officers (more or less distinctly recognized by law as a “court”) convened for the purpose of inquiring into complaints of-fecting the honor of brother ofilcers and punishing derelictions from the code of honor and deciding on the causes and occasions for flght-lng duels, in which officers are concerned, and the manner of conducting them
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In English law. The county court of London, held be-fore the mayor, recorder, and sheriff, but of which the recorder is, in effect, the sole judge. No actions can be brought in this court that are merely personal. 3 Steph. Comm. 449, note I
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An assembly of the members of the Court of Brotherhood (supra) together with other representatives of the corporate members of the Cinque Ports, invited to sit with the mayors of the seven principal towns. Cent. Dict
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The name given in some of the.states (aa
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A court formerly held in Wales; abollshed by 11 Geo. IV. and 1 wm. IV. c. 70. and the welsh judicature incorporated with that of England. 3 Steph. Comm. 317, note
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The name of a former English court of ap-peal, intermediate between the superior courts of common law and the house of lords, when sitting as a court of appeal from any one of the three superior courts of common law, it was composed of Judges of the other two courts. 3 Bl. Comm. 56, 57 ; 3 Steph. Comm. 333, 356. By the judicature act (1873) the jurisdiction of this court is transferred to the court of appeal.
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In Ameri. can law. A court of criminal jurisdiction in New Jersey
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The court of last resort in the state of New Jersey is so named. Formerly, the same ti-tle was given to the highest court of appeal in New York.
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In English law. A very ancient court of record, set up by william the Conqueror as a part of the aula regis, aud afterwards oue of the four superior courts at westmiuster. It was, however, inferior in rank to both the king’s bench and the commoli pleas. It was pre-sided over by a chief baron aud four puisne hurons. It wus origiuuily the kiug’s treas-ury, and was charged with keeping the king’s accounts and collecting the royal revenues. But pleas between subject and subject were anciently heard there, untii this was for-bidden by the Artivula super Cliartas, (1290,) after which its jurisdiction as a court oniy extended to revenue cases arising out of the non-payment or withholding of debts to the crown. But the privilege of suing and beiug sued in this court was extended to the king’s accountants, and later, by the use of a convenient fiction to the effect that the plain-tiff was the king’s debtor or accountant, the court was thrown open to all suitors in per-sonal actions. The exchequer had formerly both an equity side and a common-law side, • but its equity jurisdiction was taken away by the statute 5 Vict. c. 5, (1842,) and trans-ferred to the court of chancery. The judlca-ture act (1873) transferred the business and jurisdiction of this court to the “Exchequer Division” of the “High Court of Justice
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A court of special jurisdiction, held before the chancellor of the duchy or his deputy, concerning ali matters of equity re-lating to lands holden of the king in right of the duchy of Lancaster. 3 BL Comm. 78
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A court which has jurisdiction in equity, which administers justice aud decides controversies in accord-ance with the rules, principles, and precedents of equity, and which follows the forms and procedure of chancery; as distinguished from a court having the jurisdiction, rules, principles, and practice of tbe common law. Thomas v. Phillips, 4 Smedes & M. (Miss.) 423
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There is in each county of Alabama a court of record, styled the “court of county commissioners,” composed of the judge of probate, as principal judge, and four com-missioners, who are elected ^t the times pre-scribed by law, and hold office for four years. Code Aia. 1886, § 819
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An English tribunal composed of delegates appointed by royal commission, and formerly the great court of appeal in all ecclesiastical causes# The powers of the court were, hy 2 & 3 wm. IV. c. 92, transferred to the privy council. A commission of review was formerly grant-ed. in extraordinary cases, to revise a sen-tence of the court of delegates, when that court had apparently been led into material error. Brown; 3 Bl. Comm. 66
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In Eng-llsh law. A court of record, to inquire, when any one dies in prison, or comes to a violent or sudden death, hy what manner he came to his end. 4 -Steph. Comm. 323 ; 4 Bl. Comm. 274. See Coboneb
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In English law. A species of pri-vate court which formerly appertained to the counties palatine of Lancaster and Durham
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These were the same as courts of request, (q. v.) This name is also frequently applied to the courts of equity or of chancery, not as a name but as a description. See Harper v. Clayton, 84 Md. 346, 35 Ath 1083, 35 L. R
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In English ecclesiastical law. A court, or assembly
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