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COURTS OF CINQUE PORTS

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In English law. Courts of limited local Jurisdiction formerly held before the mayor and jurats (aldermen) of the Cinque Ports. … [Read more...]

COURTS OF CONSCIENCE

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These were the same as courts of request, (g. v.) This name is also frequently applied to the courts of equity or of chancery, not as a name but as a description. And see CONSCIENCE. … [Read more...]

COURT REPORTER

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The person who, in court proceedings, records and prepares a written transcript of the proceedings. See also stenographer. … [Read more...]

COURTS OF PRINCIPALITY OF WALES

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A species of private courts of a limited though extensive Jurisdiction, which, upon the thorough reduction of that principality and the settling of its polity in the reign of Henry VIII., were erected all over the country. These courts, however, have been abolished by 1 Wm. IV. c. 70; the principality being now divided into two circuits, which the judges visit in the same … [Read more...]

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