Search results for: “common pleas”

  • Court Of Common Pleas

    In American Law. A court of original and general jurisdiction for the trial of issues of fact and law according to the principles of the common law. Courts of this name still exist in some of the states of the United States, and frequently have a criminal as well as civil jurisdiction. […]

  • Common Pleas

    Common Pleas

    The name of a court having jurisdiction generally of civil actions. Such pleas or actions as are brought by private persons against private persons, or by the government, when the cause of action is of a civil nature. In England, whence we derived this phrase, common pleas are so called to […]

  • Common Law

    Common law in Law Enforcement Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of common law. Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Common Law (You may find common law at the world legal encyclopedia and the […]

  • Common

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Common Meaning of Common Belonging to the community at large ; of frequent or ordinary occurrence or appearance ; characteristic of the lower classes; public , general , familiar, usual and ordinary. […]

  • Common Nuisance

    Common Nuisance

    Hawkins, In his Pleas of the Crown, defines a common nuisance as an offense against the public, by doing anything injurious to all the King’s subjects, or by omitting to do that which the common good requires. 71 111. 194. One that affects the public at large and is a violation of a […]

  • Common Bench

    The ancient name for the court of common pleas. …

  • Dilatory Pleas

    A class of demurrer at common law, founded on some matter of fact not connected with the merits of the case, but such as might exist without impeaching the right of action itself. They were either pleas to the jurisdiction, questioning the jurisdiction of the court or pleas in suspension, […]

  • Great Writ Of Liberty

    Great Writ Of Liberty

    What is Great Writ of Liberty? A definition of great writ of liberty is: The writ of “habeas corpus and subjiciendum”, issuing at common law out of courts of Chancery, King’s Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer.[1] Resources Notes “Great Writ of Liberty” in the White America Dictionary […]

  • Affirmance-day-general

    In the English court of exchequer. A day appointed by the judges of the common pleas, and barons of the exchequer, to be held a few days after the beginning of every term for the general affirmance or reversal of judgments. 2 Tidd, Prac. 1091. …

  • Palatine Courts

    Formerly the court of common pleas at Lancaster, the chancery court of Lancaster, and the court of pleas at Durham, the second of which alone now exists. …

  • High Court of Justice

    That branch of the English supreme court of judicature (q. v.) which exercises (1) the original jurisdiction formerly exercised by the court of chancery, the courts of queen’s bench, common pleas, and exchequer, the courts of probate, divorce, and admiralty, the court of common pleas […]

  • Capitalis Justiciarius Banci

    (or de banco). Chief justice of the brench. The title of the chief justice of the (now) court of common pleas, first mentioned in the first year of Edward I. 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 48. Crabb, Hist. Eng. Law, 146. …

  • Banc

    (Ft. bench). The seat of judgment; as, banc le roy, the king’s bench; bance le common pleas, the bench of common pleas; the full bench. …

  • Banci Narratores

    In old English law. Advocates; countors; Serjeants. Applied to advocates in the common pleas courts. 1 Bl. Comm. 24; Cowell. …

  • C. P.

    Common pleas (court)….