The chief justice of the common pleas was the head of the Court of Common Pleas, also known as the Common Bench, which was the second-highest common law...
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Justice of the Common Pleas was a puisne judicial position within the Court of Common Pleas of England and Wales, under the Chief Justice. The Common...
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concern the king. Created in the late 12th to early 13th century after splitting from the Exchequer of Pleas, the Common Pleas served as one of the central...
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of the Exchequer, had its own chief justice: the Lord Chief Justice, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and the Chief Baron of the Exchequer. The...
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The chief justice of the Common Pleas for Ireland was the presiding judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland, which was known in its early years as...
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Justices of the Common Pleas were transferred to the new Common Pleas Division, and retained their previous titles until they left office. The Common...
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the Court of Common Pleas and Exchequer of Pleas in Westminster Hall in 1318, making its last travels in 1421. The King's Bench was merged into the High...
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the common law element being split off to form the Court of Common Pleas. Although the Exchequer of Pleas was the first common law court, it was the last...
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Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland Chief justice Lord President of the Court of Session This disambiguation...
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Hervey de Stanton (category Chief Justices of the Common Pleas)
both as Chief Justice of the King's Bench and as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas) and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was a descendant of Sir William...
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Court of Chancery, the Court of King's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, the Court of Exchequer, the High Court of Admiralty, the Court of Probate, the Court...
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recorded pleas in the court of the Lord Mayor and the aldermen and delivered their judgments. A charter granted by Henry VI in 1444 appointed the recorder...
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of the peace Supreme Court of the United States Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Garner, p. 480. Oxford English Dictionary, p. 143. Oxford English Dictionary...
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Matthew Hale (jurist) (category Justices of the Common Pleas)
Cromwell made him a Justice of the Common Pleas. Hale sat in Parliament, either in the Commons or the Upper House, in every Parliament from the First Protectorate...
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Edward Montagu (judge) (category Lord chief justices of England and Wales)
Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1539 to 1545 and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1545 to 1553. He was born in or before 1488 at the royal...
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owed to the King) and the Court of Common Pleas (qualified to hear cases between subject and subject); the latter was deliberately stripped of its jurisdiction...
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Attorney General for England and Wales (redirect from Attorney General of England)
to give up the office and become Chief Justice of the Common Pleas because of the smaller workload, despite the heavily reduced pay. The office first...
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The chief justice is the presiding member of a supreme court in many countries with a justice system based on English common law, such as the High Court...
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William Blackstone (category Justices of the Common Pleas)
to the judiciary as a justice of the Court of King's Bench on 16 February 1770, leaving to replace Edward Clive as a justice of the Common Pleas on 25...
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Assizes (redirect from Justice of Assize)
centuries, many justices of the Court of King's Bench, those of the Court of Common Pleas, and barons of the Exchequer of Pleas in some seasons of the year travelled...
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John More (judge) (category Justices of the Common Pleas)
be a Serjeant-at-law in 1503, a Justice of Assize in 1513, a Justice of the Common Pleas in 1518, and finally to the King's Bench in 1520, where he remained...
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John Cavendish (category Justices of the Common Pleas)
Justice of the Common Pleas in 1371 and Chief Justice of the King's Bench in 1372. He had one son, Andrew, who succeeded his father in the manor of Overhall...
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Court justices who already held seats in the House of Lords lost their right to speak and vote there until after retirement as Justices of the Supreme...
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Lord Chancellor" (PDF). The Right Hon. The Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. 21...
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M'Naghten rules (category Mental health legal history of the United Kingdom)
Common Pleas, a series of hypothetical questions about the defence of insanity. The principles expounded by this panel have come to be known as the "M'Naghten...
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Crown Court (redirect from Crown Court of England and Wales)
Tribunals Service, an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice. England and Wales formerly used a system of courts of assize and quarter sessions for indictment...
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William Hunter (martyr) (category People executed by the Kingdom of England by burning)
Jesus. He was taken before Antony Browne, then the local Justice, but later Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, but refused to retract his position. Hunter...
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Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, and the Court of the Exchequer) merged to become divisions of the new High Court of Justice. The head of each court (Lord...
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Brudenell-Bruce, Earl of Cardigan, son of the 9th Marquess. The Brudenell family descends from Sir Robert Brudenell, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1520 to...
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John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (redirect from Lord Chief Justice Coleridge)
held the posts, in turn, of Solicitor-General for England, Attorney-General for England, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Lord Chief Justice of England...
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