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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mary Bankes (category Women in the English Civil War)
during the English Civil War from 1643 to 1645. She was married to Sir John Bankes, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Attorney-General of King...
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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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November of that year he was appointed a justice of the Court of Common Pleas. Less than a year later on 17 September 1439 he was made Chief Justice of the Common...
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Chief Justice Eyre may refer to: Sir James Eyre (judge), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1793–1799 Sir Robert Eyre, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1725–1735...
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of the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and Head of Civil Justice. As a judge, the Master of the Rolls is second in seniority...
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Edward Coke (redirect from Chief Justice Coke)
the Gunpowder Plot conspirators. As a reward for his services he was first knighted and then made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. As Chief Justice...
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and Court of Appeal division to substitute the old Chancery, Common Pleas, Queen's Bench and Exchequer Courts. Subsequently, changes in the court's administration...
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