Vide Prerogative Court. … [Read more...]
COURTS OF CONSCIENCE
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
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
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...]
COURT OF ORPHANS
In English law. The court of the lord mayor and aldermen of London, which has the care of those orphans whose parent died In London and was free of the city. In Pennsylvania (and perhaps some other states) the name "orphans' court" Is applied to that species of tribunal which is elsewhere known as the "probate court" or "surrogate's court." … [Read more...]