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  • COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF THE PEACE
    In American law. A court of criminal jurisdiction in the state of Pennsylvania, having power to try misdemeanors, and'exercising certain functions of an administrative nature. There is one such court in each county of the state. Its sessions are, In general, held at the same time and by the same More...
  • COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH
    See KING'S BENCH.
  • COURT OF RECORD
    See COURT, supra.
  • COURT OF REGARD
    In English law. One of the forest courts, in England, held every third year, for the la wing or expedlta-tion of dogs, to prevent them from running after deer. It is now obsolete. 3 Steph. Comm. 440 ; 3 Bl. Comm. 71, 72.
  • COURTS OF REQUEST
    Inferior courts, in England, having local jurisdiction 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 (g. v.) took their place. 3 Steph. Comm. 283.
  • COURT OF SESSION
    The name of the highest court of civil jurisdiction in Scotland. It was composed of fifteen judges, now of thirteen. It sits in two divisions. The lord president and three ordinary lords form the first division; the lord Justice clerk and three other ordinary lords form the second division. There More...
  • COURT OF SESSIONS
    Courts of criminal jurisdiction existing in California, New York, and one or two other of the United States.
  • COURT OF STANNARIES
    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 their business to attend suits in distant courts. The stannary court is a court of record, with a special jurisdiction. 3 More...
  • COURT OF STAR CHAMBER
    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 temporal, being privy councillors, together with two judges of the courts of common law, without the intervention of any Jury. More...
  • COURT OF THE STEWARD AND MARSHAL
    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 household for twelve miles, which circuit was called the "verge." Crabb, Eng. Law, 185. It had also Jurisdiction of actions More...
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