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  • COURT OF THE LORD HIGH STEWARD
    In 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 not a.permanent body, but is created in modern times, when occasion requires, and for the time being, only; and the lord More...
  • COURT OF THE LORD HIGH STEWARD OF THE UNIVERSITIES
    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 mayhem.
  • COURT OF MAGISTRATES AND FREEHOLDERS
    In American law. The name of a court formerly established in South Carolina for the trial of slaves and free persons of color for criminal offenses.
  • COURT OF MARSHALSEA
    A court which has jurisdiction of all trespasses committed within the verge of the king's court, where one of the parties was of the royal household; and of all debts aud contracts, when both parties were of that establishment. It was abolished by 12 & 13 Vict c 101, | More...
  • COURT OF NISI PRIUS
    In American law. Though this term is frequently used as a general designation of any court exercising general, original jurisdiction in civil cases, (being used Interchangeably with "trial-court,") it belonged as a legal title only to a court which formerly existed in the city and county of Philadelphia, and which More...
  • COURT OF ORDINARY
    In some of the United States (e. p., Georgia) this name is given to the probate or surrogate's court, or the court having the usual jurisdiction in respect to the proving of wills and the administration of decedents' estates. Veach v. Rice, 131 U. S. 293, 9 Sup. Ct. 730, More...
  • COURT OF ORPHANS
    In English law. The court of the lord mayor and aldermen of London, which has the care of those orphans whose parent died In London and was free of the city. In Pennsylvania (and perhaps some other states) the name "orphans' court" Is applied to that species of tribunal which More...
  • COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER
    In English law. A court for the trial of cases of treason and felony. The commissioners of assise and nisi prius are judges selected by the king and appointed and authorized under the great seal, including usually two of the judges at Westminster, and sent out twice a year into More...
  • COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER AND GENERAL JAIL DELIVERY
    In American law. A court of criminal jurisdiction in the state of Pennsylvania. It is held at the same time with the court of quarter sessions, as a general rule, and by the same judges. See Brightly's Purd. Dig. Pa. pp. 26, 382, 120L
  • COURT OF PALACE AT WESTMINSTER
    This court bad jurisdiction of personal actions arising within twelve miles of the palace at Whitehall. Abolished by 12 ft 13 Vict. c. 101, 3 Steph. Comm. 317, note.
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