King’s Bench (Division)

King’s Bench (Division)

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  • king's bench division — A department of the English high court of justice …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • King's Bench — King s Bench, the also the King s Bench Division part of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales. This name is used during the times when Britain is ruled by a king. →↑Queen s Bench, the …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • king's bench — n: a division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales that hears civil cases (as commercial cases) and appeals of criminal cases used during the reign of a king compare queen s bench Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster …   Law dictionary

  • King's Bench — King s (Queen s) Bench One of the superior courts of common law in England, being so called because the king (or queen) used formerly to sit there in person, the style of the court being coram ipso rege. It was called the queen s bench in the… …   Black's law dictionary

  • King's Bench — King s (Queen s) Bench One of the superior courts of common law in England, being so called because the king (or queen) used formerly to sit there in person, the style of the court being coram ipso rege. It was called the queen s bench in the… …   Black's law dictionary

  • King's Bench — (spr. bentsch, Court of King s oder Queen s Bench, engl. »Königsbank«, Bancus regis), ehemals das Oberhofgericht zu London; seit 1873 (1881) Benennung einer Abteilung (Queen s Bench division) des obersten Gerichtshof (High Court of Justice) für… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • King's Bench — King s′ Bench′ n. law the highest British court of common law, dealing with both civil and criminal cases: a division of the High Court of Justice Also called, when a queen is sovereign,Queen s Bench …   From formal English to slang

  • Queen's Bench Division — ˌQueen s ˈBench 7 [Queen s Bench] (also ˌQueen s ˈBench Division) noun singular part of the UK High Court   …   Useful english dictionary

  • Court of King's Bench (England) — For other uses, see Court of King s Bench. The Court of King s Bench at work. This illuminated manuscript from about 1460 is the earliest known depiction of the English court.[1] The Court of King s Bench (or Court of Queen s Bench during the… …   Wikipedia

  • King's Bench — Brit. Law. a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a… …   Universalium

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