Court of King's Bench
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also in the atlas: Court of King's Bench the place
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The Law of Torts
Court that decided a Secretary of State had no power to issue general warrants to search for and seize papers.
as, for example, when the Court of King’s Bench decided that a Secretary of State had no power to issue general warrants to search for and seize papers and the like.
The language used by the Court of King’s Bench is at any rate not convincing, for although certainly a wrong is not property, the right to recover damages for a wrong is a chose in action;
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
The English court that decided Somerset's case before the American Revolution.
It was decided by the Court of King’s Bench in England—Lord Mansfield being Chief Justice—before our revolution, and while the English Charters were the fundamental law of the colonies—that the principles of English liberty were so plainly incompatible with slavery, that even if a slaveholder, from another part of the world, brought his slave into England—though only for a temporary purpose, and w …