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See also:COMMON PLEAS, See also:COURT OF , formerly one of the three See also:English common See also:law courts at 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 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. 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 See also:Westminster. The court was presided over by a See also:chief (capitalis justiciaries de communi banco) and four See also:puisne See also:judges. 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.
End of Article: COMMON PLEAS, COURT OF
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