This court bad jurisdiction of personal actions arising within twelve miles of the palace at Whitehall. Abolished by 12 … [Read more...]

A court for the hearing of appeals by owners or masters of ships, from orders for the detention of unsafe ships, made by the English hoard of trade, under the merchant shipping act, 1876, … [Read more...]

An inferior court, possessing a very ancient jurisdiction over causes of action arising within the borough of Liverpool. It appears to have been also called the "Borough Court of Liverpool." It has the same jurisdiction in admiralty matters as the Lancashire county court. Rose. Adm. 75. … [Read more...]

In old English law. One of the forest courts, having a somewhat similar jurisdiction to that of the court of attachments, (q. v.) … [Read more...]

A spiritual court in England, being a branch of, and annexed to, the Court of Arches. It has a jurisdiction over all those parishes dispersed through the province of Canterbury, in the midst of other dioceses, which are exempt from the ordinary's jurisdiction, and subject to the metropolitan only. All ecclesiastical causes arising within these peculiar or exempt jurisdictions … [Read more...]