Court Of Kings Bench
The name of the supreme court of law in england.
Court of kings bench. Or during the reign of a male monarch the king s bench cour du banc du roi is the superior court in a number of jurisdictions within some of the commonwealth realms the original king s bench founded in 1215 in england was one of the ancient courts of the land and is now a division of the high court of justice of england and wales. C a f meekings king s bench files in legal records and the historian ed. J b post king s bench clerks in the reign of richard ii bulletin of the institute of historical research xlvii 1974 pp. During the reign of a queen it is called the queen s bench and during the protectorate of cromwell it was called the upper bench.
Royal historical society 1978. Plea and crown sides. It was called the queen s bench during the reign of elizabeth i and the upper bench during cromwell s protectorate along with the court of common pleas it was one of the two king s courts residing in westminster hall originally it was the principal court for criminal cases and. Coram rege rolls description.
Or the filacer s office in the court of king s bench london 1684 some verbatim reports of proceedings in the. Court of king s bench. Their title derives from the fiction that proceedings in the court were held before the king in person coram rege. This chapter examines the role of the court of king s bench in the judicial system in england during the tudor period.
Cour du banc de la reine. The queen s bench french. Plea rolls containing the record of pleas on both the crown and plea sides of the court of king s bench from the reign of edward i to that of william iii. However this court was smaller than the common pleas in.
The court of king s bench was the highest court of law in england during the middle ages and the renaissance. The court of king s bench formally known as the court of the king before the king himself 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 the king s bench finally joined the court of common pleas and exchequer of pleas in westminster hall in 1318 making. It is so called because formerly the king used to sit there in person the style of the court being still coram ipso rege before the king himself. The court s bureaucracy is surveyed by c a f meekings king s bench files in j h baker ed legal records and the historian london.
An important practitioners manual is j trye jus filizarii. The king s bench and the two offshoots of the aula regia the common pleas and the exchequer for many years possessed co ordinate jurisdiction although there were a few cases in which each had exclusive authority and in point of dignity precedence was given to the court of king s bench the lord chief justice of which was also styled lord. 150 63 is a detailed study of the court officials in that reign.