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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–166019th Century · English

The court before which the Five Knights' Case, concerning the King's power of arbitrary imprisonment, was argued.

Five of their number had applied for a writ of Habeas Corpus, and the King’s claim to imprison without showing cause,—and thus by stating no issue which could go before a jury, to prevent the imprisoned person from obtaining a trial—was argued before the Court of King’s Bench in what is known as The Five Knights’ Case (No.

introduction i to the meeting of the third parliam ¶

and so of the several jurisdictions of each Court, the justice whereby all felons and traitors are put to death, proceeds from His Majesty;

chapter 13 ¶

and whereas by the statute made in the third year of King Henry the Seventh, power is given to the Chancellor, the Lord Treasurer of England for the time being, and the Keeper of the King’s Privy Seal, or two of them calling unto them a Bishop and a Temporal Lord of the King’s most honourable Council, and the two Chief Justices of the King’s Bench and Common Pleas for the time being, or other two …

chapter 14 ¶

Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John20th Century · English

The royal court known as coram rege, central to Coke's interpretation of the nec super eum ibimus clause and to the later development of common-law justice.

In elaborating this error, he drew a distinction between the court of King’s Bench, otherwise known as coram rege, because the King was in theory present, and other courts to which he had “sent” a writ delegating authority.

4 nec super eum ibimus nec super eum mittemus ¶

and, if this promise had been kept, the result would have been to check the development of the small committees destined to become at no distant date the Courts of King’s Bench and Common Pleas, and to revive the fast–waning jurisdictions of the manorial courts on the one hand and of the commune concilium on the other.

iv reactionary side of these provisions ¶

A second group, reserved for royal pleas, became the court Coram Rege, known subsequently as the Court of King’s Bench.

iii influences of magna carta on genesis of courts ¶

Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England20th Century · English

The Court of King's Bench, whose ordinary civil jurisdiction rested upon a fiction of trespass.

The ordinary civil jurisdiction of the Court of King’s Bench rested upon the absurd fiction that the defendant in an action, e.

b absence of changes in the law ¶

The Law of Intellectual Property19th Century · English

The English court that decided Millar vs. Taylor.

The question of an author’s copyright at Common Law, first came to a decision by the court of King’s Bench in 1769, in the case of Millar vs.

chapter 30 ¶

We, of this day, may well feel amazed that three out of four, of the judges, occupying so high a seat as that of the King’s Bench, could fall into an error so absurd in itself, and so evidently fatal to the cause they were advocating.

chapter 30 ¶

The Law of Torts19th Century · English

English court that decided the 1770 raft case discussed among exceptions to strict liability.

On such facts the Court of King’s Bench held in 1770 that A.

8 inevitable accident ¶