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61 relations: Act of Parliament, Admiralty court, Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876, Bleak House, Breach of promise, Charles Dickens, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Commissioner of Bankruptcy (England and Wales), Common law, Costs in English law, Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, Court of Appeal in Chancery, Court of Chancery, Court of Common Pleas (England), Court of Exchequer Chamber, Court of King's Bench (England), Court of Probate, Court of Session, Courts of England and Wales, Defamation, Defendant, Demurrer, Earl of Oxford's case, England and Wales, Equity (law), Exchequer of Pleas, Fitzroy Kelly, High Court of Justice, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, Judge, Judicature Act, Jury, Kenneth Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baron Muir Mackenzie, Lawsuit, Legal fiction, London, Lord Chancellor, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, Maxims of equity, Motion (parliamentary procedure), Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley, Non-suit, Order in Council, Parody, Plaintiff, Pleading, Precedent, Presidency, Prosecutor, ..., Queen's Bench, Rights of audience, Seduction, Serjeant-at-law, Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet, Summons, Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland) 1877, Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873, Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Verdict, Writ. Expand index (11 more) »
Act of Parliament
Acts of Parliament, also called primary legislation, are statutes passed by a parliament (legislature).
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Admiralty court
Admiralty courts, also known as maritime courts, are courts exercising jurisdiction over all maritime contracts, torts, injuries, and offenses.
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Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876
The Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c.59) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that altered the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
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Bleak House
Bleak House is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853.
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Breach of promise
Breach of promise is a common law tort, abolished in many jurisdictions.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.
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Chief Baron of the Exchequer
The Chief Baron of the Exchequer was the first "baron" (i.e., judge) of the English Exchequer of Pleas.
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Commissioner of Bankruptcy (England and Wales)
A Commissioner of Bankruptcy (England and Wales) was, from 1571 to 1883, an official appointed (initially by commission of the Lord Chancellor) to administer the estate of a bankrupt with full power to dispose of all his lands and tenements.
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Common law
Common law (also known as judicial precedent or judge-made law, or case law) is that body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals.
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Costs in English law
In English civil litigation, costs are the lawyers' fees and disbursements of the parties.
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Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes
The Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes was created by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857, which transferred the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts in matters matrimonial to the new court so created.
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Court of Appeal in Chancery
The Court of Appeal in Chancery was created in 1851 to hear appeals of decisions and decrees made in the Chancery Court.
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Court of Chancery
The Court of Chancery was a court of equity in England and Wales that followed a set of loose rules to avoid the slow pace of change and possible harshness (or "inequity") of the common law.
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Court of Common Pleas (England)
The Court of Common Pleas, or Common Bench, was a common law court in the English legal system that covered "common pleas"; actions between subject and subject, which did not concern the king.
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Court of Exchequer Chamber
The Court of Exchequer Chamber was an English appellate court for common law civil actions before the reforms of the Judicature Acts of 1873-1875.
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Court of King's Bench (England)
The Court of King's Bench (or Court of Queen's Bench during the reign of a female monarch), formally known as The Court of the King Before the King Himself, was an English court of common law in the English legal system.
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Court of Probate
The Court of Probate was created by the Court of Probate Act 1857, which transferred the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts in testamentary matters to the new court so created.
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Court of Session
The Court of Session (Cùirt an t-Seisein; Coort o Session) is the supreme civil court of Scotland, and constitutes part of the College of Justice; the supreme criminal court of Scotland is the High Court of Justiciary.
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Courts of England and Wales
The Courts of England and Wales, supported administratively by Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service, are the civil and criminal courts responsible for the administration of justice in England and Wales.
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Defamation
Defamation, calumny, vilification, or traducement is the communication of a false statement that, depending on the law of the country, harms the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation.
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Defendant
A defendant is a person accused of committing a crime in criminal prosecution or a person against whom some type of civil relief is being sought in a civil case.
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Demurrer
A demurrer is a pleading in a lawsuit that objects to or challenges a pleading filed by an opposing party.
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Earl of Oxford's case
Earl of Oxford’s case (1615) 21 ER 485 is a foundational case for the common law world, that held equity (equitable principle) takes precedence over the common law.
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England and Wales
England and Wales is a legal jurisdiction covering England and Wales, two of the four countries of the United Kingdom.
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Equity (law)
In jurisdictions following the English common law system, equity is the body of law which was developed in the English Court of Chancery and which is now administered concurrently with the common law.
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Exchequer of Pleas
The Exchequer of Pleas or Court of Exchequer was a court that dealt with matters of equity, a set of legal principles based on natural law and common law in England and Wales.
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Fitzroy Kelly
Sir Fitzroy Edward Kelly PC, KC (9 October 1796 – 18 September 1880), was an English commercial lawyer, Tory politician and judge.
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High Court of Justice
The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.
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Jarndyce and Jarndyce
Jarndyce and Jarndyce (or Jarndyce v Jarndyce) is a fictional court case in Bleak House (1852-3) by Charles Dickens, progressing in the English Court of Chancery.
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Judge
A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges.
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Judicature Act
Judicature Act is a term which was used in the United Kingdom for legislation which related to the Supreme Court of Judicature.
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Jury
A jury is a sworn body of people convened to render an impartial verdict (a finding of fact on a question) officially submitted to them by a court, or to set a penalty or judgment.
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Kenneth Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baron Muir Mackenzie
Kenneth Augustus Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baron Muir Mackenzie (29 June 1845 – 22 May 1930), was a British barrister, civil servant and Labour politician.
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Lawsuit
A lawsuit (or suit in law) is "a vernacular term for a suit, action, or cause instituted or depending between two private persons in the courts of law." A lawsuit is any proceeding by a party or parties against another in a court of law.
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Legal fiction
A legal fiction is a fact assumed or created by courts which is then used in order to help reach a decision or to apply a legal rule.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Lord Chancellor
The Lord Chancellor, formally the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest ranking among those Great Officers of State which are appointed regularly in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking even the Prime Minister.
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Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales is the head of the judiciary and President of the Courts of England and Wales.
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Lords of Appeal in Ordinary
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, commonly known as Law Lords, were judges appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 to the British House of Lords in order to exercise its judicial functions, which included acting as the highest court of appeal for most domestic matters.
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Maxims of equity
Maxims of equity are legal maxims that serve as a set of general principles or rules which are said to govern the way in which equity operates.
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Motion (parliamentary procedure)
In parliamentary procedure as defined in Robert's Rules of Order, a motion is a formal proposal by a member of a deliberative assembly that the assembly take certain action.
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Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley
Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley, (29 November 1828 – 9 December 1921) was an English judge.
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Non-suit
A non-suit (British English) or nonsuit (American English) is a legal procedure.
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Order in Council
An Order in Council is a type of legislation in many countries, especially the Commonwealth realms.
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Parody
A parody (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, play on something, caricature, or joke) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.
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Plaintiff
A plaintiff (Π in legal shorthand) is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court.
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Pleading
In law as practiced in countries that follow the English models, a pleading is a formal written statement of a party's claims or defenses to another party's claims in a civil action.
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Precedent
In common law legal systems, a precedent, or authority, is a principle or rule established in a previous legal case that is either binding on or persuasive for a court or other tribunal when deciding subsequent cases with similar issues or facts.
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Presidency
A presidency is an administration or the executive, the collective administrative and governmental entity that exists around an office of president of a state or nation.
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Prosecutor
A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system, or the civil law inquisitorial system.
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Queen's Bench
The Queen's 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.
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Rights of audience
In common law, a right of audience is generally a right of a lawyer to appear and conduct proceedings in court on behalf of their client.
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Seduction
Seduction is the process of deliberately enticing a person, to engage in a relationship, to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; to corrupt, to persuade or induce to engage in sexual behaviour.
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Serjeant-at-law
A Serjeant-at-Law (SL), commonly known simply as a Serjeant, was a member of an order of barristers at the English bar.
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Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet
Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, 12th Baronet (24 September 1802 – 28 November 1880) was a Scottish jurist and politician who served as the Lord Chief Justice for 21 years.
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Summons
A summons (also known in England and Wales as a claim form and in the Australian state of New South Wales as a Court Attendance Notice (CAN)) is a legal document issued by a court (a judicial summons) or by an administrative agency of government (an administrative summons) for various purposes.
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Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland) 1877
The Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland) 1877 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that brought about a major reorganisation of the superior courts in Ireland.
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Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873
The Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873 (sometimes known as the Judicature Act 1873) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1873.
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Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the supreme court in all matters under English and Welsh law, Northern Irish law and Scottish civil law.
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Verdict
In law, a verdict is the formal finding of fact made by a jury on matters or questions submitted to the jury by a judge.
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Writ
In common law, a writ (Anglo-Saxon gewrit, Latin breve) is a formal written order issued by a body with administrative or judicial jurisdiction; in modern usage, this body is generally a court.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicature_Acts
