Court Of Kings Bench
Cour du banc de la reine.
Court of kings bench. Originally the common criminal court of the common law. Later the general superior court. Cases involving an appeal from a county court.
Or during the reign of a male monarch the king s bench cour du banc du roi is the superior court in a number of jurisdictions within some of the commonwealth realms the original king s bench founded in 1215 in england was one of the ancient courts of the land and is now a division of the high court of justice of england and wales. Kb 28 court of king s bench crown side and supreme court of judicature high court of justice king s bench division. However most king s bench civil litigation cases are in the records of king s bench plea side.
From the 17th century onwards however the court dealt predominantly with those cases that related directly to the crown financial issues and trespasses for example. Plea and crown sides. Though court transcripts and full judgments very rarely form part of the official court records there are verbatim accounts of what was said in court for a number of king s queen s bench cases among contemporary pamphlets in british trials 1660 1900 available on microfiche at the national archives in kew.
During the reign of a queen it is called the queen s bench and during the protectorate of cromwell it was called the upper bench. The court of kings bench pictured here by thomas rowlandson in 1808 was established during the medieval period to cover a range of both criminal and civil matters. 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 in the late 12th to early 13th century from the curia regis the king s bench initially followed the monarch on his travels the king s bench finally joined the court of common pleas and exchequer of pleas in westminster hall in 1318 making.
An important practitioners manual is j trye jus filizarii. It is so called because formerly the king used to sit there in person the style of the court being still coram ipso rege before the king himself. The king s bench and the two offshoots of the aula regia the common pleas and the exchequer for many years possessed co ordinate jurisdiction although there were a few cases in which each had exclusive authority and in point of dignity precedence was given to the court of king s bench the lord chief justice of which was also styled lord chief justice of england being the highest.
The queen s bench french. Exchequer queen s bench common pleas court of exchequer bench originally suggested the great english lawyer harry poland the king s bench dealt with usurpations of authority or jurisdiction or cases of violation of the peace of the king. Kb 27 court of king s bench.
The national archives kb 1 court of king s bench affidavits 1682 1985 indexes are in kb 39. The name of the supreme court of law in england. Royal historical society 1978.
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