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The Court of King's Bench, [a] formally known as The Court of the King Before the King Himself, [a] was a court of common law in the English legal system. Created in the late 12th to early 13th century from the curia regis , the King's Bench initially followed the monarch on his travels.
King's Bench jurisdiction or King's Bench power is the extraordinary jurisdiction of an individual state's highest court over its inferior courts. In the United States, the states of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma and Wisconsin [1] use the term to describe the extraordinary jurisdiction of their highest court, called the Court of Appeals in New York or the ...
During the Commonwealth of England, from 1649 to 1660, the court was known as the Upper Bench. [2] The English Court of King's Bench was abolished in 1875 by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873. The Court's jurisdiction passed in each case to a new High Court of Justice and specifically to the King's Bench Division of that court.
Justice of the King's Bench, or Justice of the Queen's Bench during the reign of a female monarch, was a puisne judicial position within the Court of King's Bench, under the Chief Justice. The King's Bench was a court of common law which modern academics argue was founded independently in 1234, having previously been part of the curia regis . [ 2 ]
The later theory was that Henry II's decree created the Court of Common Pleas, not the King's Bench, and that the King's Bench instead split from the Common Pleas at some later time. [11] In the 20th century, with better access to historical documents, legal historians have come to a different conclusion.
In 1794, [27] pursuant to the Judicature Act, 1794, [28] the Court of King's Bench was created for the province. [29] The Court of King's Bench, a superior court, [30] was given the powers of the courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer in England, and had as judges the chief justice of the province and two puisne justices. [29]
Law Reports, Queen's Bench, covering decision of the King's Bench Division (named the Queen's Bench Division during the reigns of Victoria and Elizabeth II) of the High Court – started in 1865, [13] renamed Law Reports, Queen's Bench Division in 1875, renamed to drop "Division" in 1891, [14] renamed to take account of the change of monarch in ...
Court of King's Bench (Ireland), a historic senior court of common law in Ireland; King's Bench Division, a division of the High Court of England and Wales that assumed many of the responsibilities of the historic King's Bench in 1875; Court of King's Bench of Alberta, the superior trial court of the Canadian province of Alberta; Court of King ...