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  • 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...
  • COURT OF THE STEWARD OF THE KING'S HOUSEHOLD
    In English law. A court which had Jurisdiction of all cases of treason, misprision of treason, murder, manslaughter, bloodshed, and other malicious strlkings whereby blood is shed, occurring in or within the limits of any of the palaces or houses of the king, or any other house where the royal More...
  • COURT OF SURVEY
    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 hoard of trade, under the merchant shipping act, 1876, § 6.
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