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  • COURT OF GUESTLING
    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 Diet
  • COURT OF HIGH COMMISSION
    In English law. An ecclesiastical court of very, formidable jurisdiction, for the vindication of the peace and dignity of the church, by reforming, ordering, and. correcting the ecclesiastical state and persons, and all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offenses, contempts, and enormities. 3 Bl. Comm. 67. It was erected More...
  • COURT OF HONOR
    A court having jurisdiction to hear and redress injuries or affronts to a man's honor or personal dignity, of a nature not cognizable by the ordinary courts of law, or encroachments upon his rights In respect to heraldry, coat-armor, right of precedence, and the like. It was one of the More...
  • COURT OF HUSTINGS
    In English law. The county court of London, held before the mayor, recorder, and sheriff, but of which the recorder Is, in efTect, the sole judge. No actions can be brought in this court that are merely personal. 3 Steph. Comm. 440, note I. In American law. A local court More...
  • COURT OF INQUIRY
    In English law. A court sometimes appointed by the crown to ascertain whether it be proper to resort to extreme measures against a person charged before a court-martial. In American law. A court constituted by authority of the articles of war, invested with the power to examine into the nature More...
  • COURT OF JUSTICE SEAT
    In English law. The principal of the forest courts.
  • COURT OF JUSTICIARY
    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 has appellate jurisdiction in More...
  • COURT OF KING'S BENCH
    In English law. The supreme court of common law in the kingdom, now merged in the high court of justice under the judicature act of 1873, § 16.
  • COURT OF LAW
    In a wide sense, any duly constituted tribunal administering the laws of the state or nation; in 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."
  • COURT OF LODEMANAGE
    An ancient court of tHe Cinque Ports, having jurisdiction in maritime matters, and particularly over pilots (lodeuien.)
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