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    The Court of King's Bench, formally known as The Court of the King Before the King Himself, was a court of common law in the English legal system. Created...
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  • contemporary and historical courts in some Commonwealth jurisdictions. Court of King's Bench (England), a historic court of common law in the English legal...
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    The King's Bench Division (or Queen's Bench Division when the monarch is female) of the High Court of Justice deals with a wide range of common law cases...
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    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 for Divorce...
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    law in Ireland. It was a mirror of the Court of King's Bench in England. The King's Bench was one of the "Four Courts" which sat in the building in Dublin...
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    of the King's Bench Division President of the Family Division Chancellor of the High Court Senior Presiding Judge Vice-President of the King's Bench Division...
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    King's Bench Prison was a prison in Southwark, south London, England, from medieval times until it closed in 1880. It took its name from the King's Bench...
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  • The Court of King's Bench of Manitoba (French: Cour du Banc du Roi du Manitoba)—or the Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba, depending on the monarch—is...
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    female holder of the office. Originally, each of the three high common law courts, the King's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, and the Court of the Exchequer...
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    the Exchequer of Pleas and Court of King's Bench. The court's jurisdiction was gradually undercut by the King's Bench and Exchequer of Pleas with legal...
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    Spencer's Case (category Court of King's Bench (England) cases)
    the assignee of the leasehold. In 1583 the Court of King's Bench gave judgment in favor of Spencer. The central question was what kinds of covenants will...
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    Ashby v White (category Court of King's Bench (England) cases)
    the courts. Lord Holt CJ was dissenting from the judgment in the Court of King's Bench, but his dissent was upheld by the House of Lords by a vote of fifty...
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    Moses v Macferlan (category Court of King's Bench (England) cases)
    Moses in the King's Bench court to recover the £6, the jury found that Moses was entitled to the money subject to the opinion of the court on the question...
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  • Campbell v Hall (category Court of King's Bench (England) cases)
    ER 1045 was a case decided in the Court of King's Bench in 1774. On its face it was a private action for recovery of sums paid to a tax agent, but the...
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    Millar v Taylor (category Court of King's Bench (England) cases)
    series of court cases, after they had failed to convince Parliament to extend the statutory term of copyright. The Court of the King's Bench, led by...
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  • Cockcroft v Smith (category Court of King's Bench (England) cases)
    concerned the definition of legitimate self defence. Mr. Cockcroft ran his finger towards Mr. Smith's eyes. Mr. Smith bit off part of Mr. Cockcroft's finger...
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  • superior court in that its judgments cannot be reviewed by the Administrative Court of the King's Bench Division of the High Court. The Crown Court is an...
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    Taylor v Caldwell (category Court of King's Bench (England) cases)
    University of San Francisco Law Review 379 Taylor v Caldwell [1863] EWHC J1 (QB), (1863) 3 B & S 826, 122 ER 309 (6 May 1863), Court of Queen's Bench Excerpted...
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  • Reports of Cases in the Court of King's Bench, together with some other cases from T. T. 12 Geo. I., to T. T. 7 Geo. II., from 1726 - 31 is the title of a collection...
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    before the Privy Council of England alongside Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench Thomas Fleming, Lord Chief Baron Lawrence Tanfield, and Baron James...
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    the case for damages. The Queen's Bench court delivered judgment for the defendant, resolving that the Queen's grant of a monopoly was invalid, for several...
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    Cutter v Powell (category Court of King's Bench (England) cases)
    case of a mariner impressed is an excepted case, and the reason of that decision was founded on principles of public policy. The Court of King's Bench held...
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    Keeble v Hickeringill (category Court of King's Bench (England) cases)
    Pierson v. Post Ghen v. Rich Ratione soli "Keeble v. Hickeringill - King's Bench" (PDF). Costello, Vandra (Winter 2002). "Dutch Influences in Seventeenth-Century...
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    Stilk v Myrick (category Court of King's Bench (England) cases)
    [1809] EWHC KB J58 is an English contract law case heard in the King's Bench on the subject of consideration. In his verdict, the judge, Lord Ellenborough...
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  • R v Holland (category Court of King's Bench (England) cases)
    was, essentially, that infection killed the victim, not the mugger. The court ruled that it did not matter whether or not the wound was instantly fatal...
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    Williams v Carwardine (category Court of King's Bench (England) cases)
    Mr. Webb. I walked as far as the King's Head Inn, in Broad Street; I returned by the way of Eign Street to the end of Quaker's Lane, by Eign Gate Turnpike...
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    Semayne's case (category Court of King's Bench (England) cases)
    coronation of King James VI and I and the appointment of Lord Justice David Williams to the bench, the case was reargued. In 1604, the Court of King's Bench gave...
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  • and the Mansfield Judgment) is a judgment of the English Court of King's Bench in 1772, relating to the right of an enslaved person on English soil not to...
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    the term bench is a metonym used to describe members of the judiciary collectively, or the judges of a particular court, such as the King's Bench or the...
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  • the court comprised the President of the King's Bench Division, a Lord Justice of Appeal and a High Court Judge). The best known divisional court is that...
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