County Court
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The Law of Torts
Court of first instance in Burnard v. Haggis.
Haggis, the defendant in the County Court, an infant undergraduate, hired a horse for riding on the express condition that it was not to be used for jumping;
damages in an action “founded on tort” gets costs only on the County Court scale, unless by special certificate or order;
) Upon the trial of any such action in a county court before the judge without a jury one or more assessors may be appointed for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of compensation.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The local court in which formal declarations of outlawry against fugitives such as Fitz Walter and de Vesci were made.
The declaration of outlawry, which could only be made in the county court, was a necessary preliminary to the forfeiture of the outlaw’s lands and goods.
The county courts by this time had fallen completely under the King’s domination, and were to all intents and purposes royal courts.
Inquests of novel disseisin, of mort d’ancestor, and of darrein presentment, shall not be held elsewhere than in their own country–courts, and that in manner following,—We, or, if we should be out of the realm, our chief justiciar, will send two justiciars through every county four times a year, who shall, along with four knights of the county chosen by the county, hold the said assizes in the cou …
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The ordinary civil court to which appeal lies from decisions of the Insurance Commissioners on health-insurance questions.
Legal proceedings, even in the County Courts, must always be slow and relatively expensive.
Any person aggrieved by their decision may appeal to the County Court, with a further right of appeal on any question of law to a judge of the High Court.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
One of the principal ancient local courts, held monthly and presided over by the sheriff, in which suitors acted as judges.
“In the county courts, if the debt was above forty shillings, there issued a justicies (a commission) to the sheriff, to enable him to hold such a plea, where the suitors (jurors) are judges of the law and fact.
* * The freeholders of the county are the real judges in this court, and the sheriff is the ministerial officer.
The Genius of the Common Law
Local popular court of archaic and medieval England, gradually supplanted by the king's courts.
Thus, in civil matters, it seems the county court could itself bear witness to a disposition made by a landholder whose right to make it was admitted, and then give judgment accordingly.
Otherwise no special pains were taken to make the king’s courts easy of access or attractive, though there are indications that the king’s judges had the deliberate purpose of keeping the old popular courts in a lower place.