The palatine courts of Durham were a set of courts that exercised jurisdiction within the County Palatine of Durham. The bishop purchased the wapentake...

The County Palatine of Durham was a jurisdiction in the North of England, within which the bishop of Durham had rights usually exclusive to the monarch...

The Court of Pleas of the County Palatine of Durham and Sadberge, sometimes called the Court of Pleas or Common Pleas of or at Durham was a court of common...

Durham had their own courts of chancery. (See Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster and Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Durham...

The Court of the County of Durham was a court that exercised jurisdiction within the County Palatine of Durham. It was abolished, subject to certain savings...

The Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Durham and Sadberge was a court of chancery that exercised jurisdiction within the County Palatine of...

law. The Court of Appeal, the High Court, the Crown Court, the County Court, and the magistrates' courts are administered by His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals...

over the liberty of Durham and later the county palatine of Durham. The bishop, with the bishop of Bath and Wells, escorts the sovereign at the coronation...

Chancery of the County Palatine of Durham and Sadberge was merged into the High Court by the Courts Act 1971. The Court of Pleas of the County Palatine of Durham...

Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas South Carolina Court of Common Pleas Court of Common Pleas at Westminster Court of Common Pleas of the County Palatine of Durham...

The Palatine Court of Durham Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict c 47) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was one of the Durham County Palatine...

together with Durham Castle it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. From the 1070s until 1836 the city was part of the County Palatine of Durham, a semi-independent...

the Bishops of Durham, who for centuries governed Durham as a county palatine (the County Palatine of Durham) outside the usual structure of county administration...

the control of the Bishop of Durham. The lands between the Tyne and Tees, ruled by the bishops, became known as the 'County Palatine of Durham', a defensive...

The history of County Durham. Remains of Prehistoric Durham include a number of Neolithic earthworks. The Crawley Edge Cairns and Heathery Burn Cave are...

the County Palatine of Durham and Sadberge Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster Court of Chancery of Upper Canada New York Court of Chancery...

Grade II* listed building. The original venue for the assize courts in Durham was the old Shire Hall, also known as the County House, beside Palace Green;...

The Durham (County Palatine) Act 1836 (6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 19) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It abolished the temporal authority of...

The Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster was a court of chancery that exercised jurisdiction within the County Palatine of Lancaster...

frontier. The Bishops of Durham would not be stripped of their temporal powers until the Durham (County Palatine) Act 1836 returned them to the Crown. Another...

the counties palatine, the right to appoint sheriffs rested elsewhere; for example with the Bishop of Durham for County Durham, and with the Earl of Chester...

until the nineteenth century. From 1832 onwards, Wales and the palatine county of Chester, served by the Court of Great Sessions, were merged into the circuit...

of the County Palatine of Lancaster (merged with the High Court) The Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Durham and Sadberge (merged with the...

location on the Welsh Marches, the Earl had complete autonomous powers to rule on behalf of the king in the county palatine. Cheshire in the Domesday Book...

John Bell. The bishop of Durham was the temporal lord of the County Palatine of Durham. The bishop competed for power with the prior of Durham, a great...

civil parish at the confluence of the River Wear and the River Gaunless in County Durham, England. It is 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Darlington and 12...

and Descriptive View of the County Palatine of Durham (1834) that: About half a mile west of Sedgefield stands the manor and hall of Hardwick. Under Hatfield's...

officers on the civil side of the palatine Court of Pleas of the County Palatine of Durham and Sadberge. The prothonotary and his deputy were the principal...

of the Supreme Court of the United States. The family's roots can be traced back to the 12th century in Washington, in the historic County Palatine of...

the jurisdiction of the county palatine became vested in the Crown. Since then the high sheriffs of Durham have been appointed in the same way as other...