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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.
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.
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 ...
Davenport's attorneys, Joseph F. Sklarosky Sr. and Michael A. Sklarosky of Sklarosky Law of Kingston, filed a rare King's Bench petition with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court as there have been a ...
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]
The Court of King's Bench heard all complaints and pleas addressed to the King. This court was also known as the Court of Queen's Bench during the reign of a female monarch. Members of this court included the King and his closest advisors. This court always travelled with the King as he travelled throughout England and into other countries. [2]
The Court of the King's (or Queen's) Bench had existed since 1234. [4] In 1268 the first chief justice of the King's Bench was appointed. [5] From the time of Edward Coke in the early 17th century, the chief justice became known informally as "lord chief justice". It was only in 1875 that it became the statutory title. [6]
Authorised by Magna Carta to sit in a fixed location, the Common Pleas sat in Westminster Hall [1] for its entire existence, joined by the Exchequer of Pleas and Court of King's Bench. [1] The court's jurisdiction was gradually undercut by the King's Bench and Exchequer of Pleas with legal fictions, the Bill of Middlesex and Writ of Quominus ...