King's Bench, or, during the reign of a female monarch, the Queen's Bench, is the superior court in a number of jurisdictions within some of the Commonwealth realms.
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11 Facts About Queen's Bench
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Court of King's Queen's Bench is the superior trial court in four Canadian provinces:.
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English Court of Queen's Bench was abolished in 1875 by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873.
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The Irish Court of Queen's Bench was abolished by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1877.
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The King's Queen's Bench jurisdiction is vested in the King's Queen's Bench Division of the High Court in Northern Ireland.
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In Northern Ireland, the King's Queen's Bench Division is part of the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland, first created by Section 40 of the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
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Court of King's Queen's Bench grew out of the King's Court, or Curia Regis, which, both in character and the essence of its jurisdiction, dates back to the reign of King Alfred.
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The situation seemed, thereafter, to be that a central royal court, called The Queen's Bench, began to sit regularly at Westminster, leading, at some stage, to a separation between the hearing of matters relevant to the King and those that had no royal connection, which came to be known as common pleas.
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The King's Queen's Bench, being a theoretically movable court, was excluded from hearing common pleas, which included all praecipe actions for the recovery of property or debt, while actions of trespass and replevin were shared between the two benches.
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King's Queen's Bench was further divided into two parts: the Crown side, which had an unlimited criminal jurisdiction, both at first instance or as a court to which legal questions arising out of indictments in other courts could be referred; and the plea side, which dealt with actions of trespass, appeals of felony, and writs of error.
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The Lord Chief Justice of the King's Queen's Bench was styled Lord Chief Justice of England, being the highest permanent judge of the Crown.
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