County Court

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In English Law. Tribunals Of limited jurisdiction, originally established under St. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95. They had, at their institution, jurisdiction of actions for the recovery of debts, damages, and demands, legacies, and balances of partnership accounts, where the sum sued for did not exceed twenty pounds. It has since been much extended, especially in cases where the parties give assent in writing. They are chiefly regulated by St. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95; 12 & 13 Vict. c. 101; 13 & 14 Vict. c. 61; 15 &,16 Vict. c. 54; 19 & 20 Vict. c. 108; 21 & 22 Vict. c. 74. See 8 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 76. Tribunals of limited jurisdiction in the county of Middlesex, established under St. 22 Geo. II. c. 33, These courts are held once a month at least in every hundred in the county of Middlesex, by the county clerk and a jury of twelve suitors, or freeholders, summoned for that purpose. They examine the parties under oath, and make such order in the case as they shall judge agreeable to conscience. 3 Steph. Comm. 452; 3 Bl. Comm. 83. The county court was a court of great antiqtiity, and originally of much splendor and importance. It was a court of limited jurisdiction incident to the jurisdiction of the sheriff, in which, however, the suitors were really the judges, while the sheriff was a ministerial officer. It had jurisdiction of personal actions for the recovery of small debts, and of many real actions prior to their abolition. By virtue of a justides, it might entertain jurisdiction of personal actions to any amount. At this court, all proclamations of laws, outlawries, etc., were made, and the elections of such officers as sheriffs, coroners, and others took place. In the time of Edward I. it was held by the earl and bishop, and was of great dignity. It was superseded by the courts of requests to a great degree; and these, in turn, gave way to the new county courts, as they’ are sometimes called distinctively, In American Law. Courts in many of the states of the United States, and in Canada, of widely varying powers, in some states being courts of general origjnar jurisdiction, and in others courts of probate or limited jurisdiction,

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Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of county court.

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English Legal System: County Court

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of County Court : Any of the civil courts forming a system covering all of England and Wales, originally set up in 1846. The area covered by each court does not invariably correspond to the local government county boundary. Under Part 7 of the *Civil Procedure Rules, which sets out the rules for starting cases, the county court retains an unlimited jurisdiction for claims in contract and tort. It will hear some appeals (See appellate jurisdiction). Each court has a *circuit judge and a *district judge.


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