In English law . A court established in Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the miners and tinners, and that they may not be drawn away from […]

This was an English court of very ancient origin, but new-modeled by St. 3 Hen. VII. c. 1, and 21 Hen. VIII. c. 20, consisting of divers lords, spiritual and […]

A court for the hearing of appeals by owners or masters of ships, from orders for the detention of unsafe ships, made by the English board of trade , under […]

In old English law . One of the forest courts, having a somewhat similar jurisdiction to that of the court of attachments , (q. v.)

An English court of inferior jurisdiction held in every fair or market for the punishment of misdemeanors committed therein, and the recognizance of weights and measures.

In English law . A court of record , to inquire, when any one dies in prison, or comes to a violent or sudden death, by what manner he came […]

A court of special jurisdiction , held before tlie chancellor of the duchy or his deputy, concerning all matters of equity relating to lands liolden of the king in right […]

Iu English law. A court instituted for the trial, during the recess of parliament , of peers indicted for treason or felony, or for misprision of either. This court is […]

In English 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 […]

A high court, formerly held in England by the steward and marshal of the king’s household, having jurisdiction of all actions against the king’s peace within the bounds of the […]

In English law . A court which had jurisdiction of all cases of treason, misprision of treason, murder, manslaughter , bloodshed, and other malicious strikings whereby blood is shed, occurring […]

A court of record , established in England in the reign of Henry VIII. For the survey and management of the valuable fruits of tenure, a court of record was […]

an order that has been written by the judge of the court and needs to be obeyed.

the official written documentation of what happened during a trial or a hearing.

the term that is given to the official stenographer who is employed by the court to write down all that has transpired.

The rolls of a manor, containing all acts relating thereto. While belonging to the lord of the manor, they are not in the nature of public books for the benefit […]

In English law . A court which, although not oue of record, is incident to every manor, and cannot be severed therefrom. It was ordained for the maintenance of the […]

In old English practice. The peculiar hand in which the records of courts were written from the earliest period down to the reign of George II. Its characteristics were great […]

The building occupied for the public sessions of a court, with its various offices. The term may be used of a place temporarily occupied for the sessions of a court, […]

Domains or lands kept in the lord’s hands to serve his family.

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 […]

A military court , convened under authority of government and the articles of war , for trying and punishing military offenses committed by soldiers or sailors in the army or […]

See CUBTESY.

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 […]

In English law . Courts of limited local jurisdiction formerly held before the mayor and jurats (aldermen) of the Cinque Ports .