The oldest court in the state of ( New York. Its Jurisdiction is unlimited as ‘ respects amount, but restricted to‘ the city and county of New York as respects locality. It has also appellate jurisdiction of cases tried in the marine court and district courts
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In Eng-lish law. Courts of limited local jurisdic-tion formerly held before the mayor and jurats (aldermen) of the Cinque Ports
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An English court of lnferior ju-risdiction held in every fair or market for the punishment of misdemeanors committed therein, and the recognizance of weights and measures
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A court having the jurisdiction of a chancellor; a court administering equity and proceeding accord-tag to the forms and principles of equity. In England^ prior to the judicature acts, the style of the court possessing the largest equi-table powers and jurisdiction was the “high conrt of chancery.” In some of the United States, the title “court of chancery” is ap-plied to a court possessing general equity powers, distinct from the courts of common law. Parmeter ▼. Bourne, 8 wash. 45, 35 Pac. 586
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Ecclesiastical courts, in which the primates once exercised in person a considerable part of their juris-dlction. They seem to be now obsolete, or at least to be only used on the rare occur-rence of the trial of a bishop. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1201, 1204
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Courts in England composed of two or more commissioners, called “judges of assize,” (or of “assize and nisi prius,”) who are twice in every year sent by the king’s special commlssion, on circuits all round the kingdom, to try, hy a jury of the respective counties, the truth of such matters of fact as are there under dispute in the courts of west-minster Hall. 3 Steph. Comm. 421, 422 ; 3 Bl. Comm. 57
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The low-est of the three courts held in the forests. It has fallen into total disuse
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A court of arbitrators, created for the convenience of merchants in the city of New York, by act of the legislature of New York. It decides disputes between members of the chamber of commerce, and between members and outside merchants who voluntarily submit them-selves to the jurisdiction of the court
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The most Inferior of the English ecclesiastical courts, from which an appeal generally lies to that of the bishop. 3 Bl. Comm. 64
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A military court, couvened under authority of government apd the articles of war, for trying and punishing military offenses committed by soldiers or sailors in the army or navy. People v. Van Allen, 55 N. Y. 31; Carver v. U. S., 16 Ct. Cl. 361; U. S. v. Mackenzie, 30 Fed. Cas. 1160
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A court erected by act of cou-gress under the articles of confederation which preceded the adoption of the constitn-tion. It had appellate jurisdiction in prize causes
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Domains or lands kept in the lord’s hands to serve his family
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The name of an English court of record held once in the year, and’ not oftener, within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet; being the king’s court granted by char-ter to the lords of those hundreds or manors. Its ofiice was to view the frankpledges,—that is, the freemen within the liberty; to present by jury crimes happening within the juris-diction; and to punish trivial misdemeanors. It has now, however, for the most part, fall-en into total desuetude; though in some manors a court-leet is still periodically held for the transaction of the administrative business of the manor. Mozley & whitley
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In old Engllsh practlce. The pecullar hand in which the records of courts were written from the earliest period down to the reign of George II. Its char-acteristics were great strength, compactness, and undeviatiug uniformity; and its use uu-doubtedly gave to the ancient record its ac-knowledged superiority over the modern, In the important quality of durability
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The building occupied for the public sessions of a court, with its va-rious offices. The term may be used of a place temporarily occupied for the sessions of a court, though not the regular court-house. Harris v. State, 72 Miss. 960, 18 South. 387, 33 L. R. A. 85; Vigo County v. Stout, 130 Ind. 53, 35 N. E. 683, 22 L. R. A. 398; waller v. Arnold, 71 IU. 353; Kane ▼. McCown, 55 Mo. 198
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In English law. A local court which has its sittings in Lon-don only, which receives the petitions of in-solvent debtors, and decides upon the ques-tion of granting a discharge
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A tribunal empowered to try any officer of government or other per-son brought to lts bar by the process of im-peachment. In England, the house of lords constitutes such a court; in the United States, the senate; and in the several states, usually, the upper house of the legislative assembly
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This court was estab-lished by St. 20 & 21 Vict. c. 85, which trans-ferred to it all jurisdiction then exerclsable by any ecclesiastical court in England, in matters matrimonial, and also gave it new powers. Tbe court consisted of the lord chancellor, the three chiefs, and three senior puisne judges of the common-law courts, and the judge ordinary, who together constltuted, and still constitute, the “full court” The judge ordinary heard almost all matters in the first Instance. By the judicature act, 1873, S 3, the jurisdiction of the court was transferred to the supreme court of Judica-ture. Sweet
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The style of a court bavlng ju-risdiction for review, by appeal or writ of error. The name was formerly used In New York and South Carolina
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The ecclesiastical courts in England are often so called, as distinguished from the civil courts. 1 Bl. Comm. 83; 3 Bl. Comm. 64; 8 Stepb. Comm. 430
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A court established by St. 11 A 12 Vict. c. 78, compos
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In legislation. A legislative assembly. Parliament is called in the old books a court of the king, nobility, and com-mons assembled. Finch, Law, b. 4, c. 1, p. 233; Fleta, lib. 2, c. 2
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In English law. A conrt which, although not one of record, is incident to every manor, and cannot be sev-ered therefrom. It was ordained for the maintenance of the services and duties stipu-lated for by lords of manors, and for the pur-pose of determining actions of a personal nature, where the debt or damage was under forty shillings, wharton
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