See also:COURT OF See also:COMMON PLEAS
, formerly one of the three See also:English See also:common See also:law courts at See also:Westminster—the other two being the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:bench and See also:exchequer
.
The See also:court of common pleas was an offshoot of the See also:Curia Regis or king's See also:council
.
Previous to Magna Carta, the king's council, especially that portion of it which was charged with the management of judicialand See also:revenue business, followed the king's See also:person
.
This, as far as private litigation was concerned, caused See also:great inconvenience to the unfortunate suitors whose plaints awaited the See also:attention of the court, for they had, of See also:necessity, also to follow the king from See also:place to place, or lose the opportunity of having their causes tried
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Accordingly, Magna Carta enacted that common pleas (communia placita) or causes between subject and subject, should be held in some fixed place and not follow the court
.
This place was fixed at Westminster
.
The court was presided over by a See also:chief (capitalis justiciaries de communi banco) and four See also:puisne See also:judges
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The See also:jurisdiction of the common pleas was, by the Judicature See also:Act 1873, vested in the king's bench See also:division of the High Court of See also:Justice
.
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