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

The royal court, earlier called Coram Rege, developed to hear pleas of the Crown separately from ordinary pleas.

Thus two groups of judges were formed which, in later years, developed into separate courts—the Court of Common Pleas (known as “the Bench,” that is, the ordinary Bench), and the King’s Bench (known earlier as the court Coram Rege, supposed to be held in the King’s presence).

iii royal justice and feudal justice ¶

Summoned before the judges of King’s Bench, he offered to defend himself by combat, throwing down as “wager of battle” a glove of approved antique pattern.

iv later history of appeal and battle ¶

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

The court over which Lord Mansfield presided as Chief Justice for twenty-four years.

Lord Mansfield, as Chief-Justice of England, presided over the King’s Bench for twenty-four years;

iii every person is in the main and as a general r ¶

The Law of Intellectual Property19th Century · English

The English royal court that decided the leading Common Law copyright cases.

And the question never came before the King’s Bench until the case of Tonson vs.

chapter 29 ¶

Not only so, but, unfortunately for the inventors, when the rights of authors did finally come before the King’s Bench, as a Common Law question, in 1769, that court, while it sustained the rights of authors, gratuitously prejudged and condemned the rights of inventors without a hearing, as we shall hereafter sec.

chapter 29 ¶

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

The royal court to which certificates of recusancy conviction were formerly certified under the now-repealed Elizabethan Acts.

and that over and besides the said forfeitures, every person so forbearing by the space of twelve months as aforesaid, shall for his or her obstinacy, after certificate thereof in writing made into the Court, commonly called the King’s Bench, by the Ordinary of the diocese, a Justice of assize and gaol-delivery, or a Justice of Peace of the county where such offender shall dwell, be bound with two …

chapter 23 ¶

The Law of Torts19th Century · English

The English court credited with introducing the explanation of malice as improper and indirect motive.

The explanation of malice as “improper and indirect motive” appears to have been introduced by the judges of the King’s Bench between sixty and seventy years ago.

iii malicious prosecution and abuse of process ¶