Identifier: cu31924102773813 (find matches)
Title: Fifty years ago
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Besant, Walter, Sir, 1836-1901 Wordsworth Collection
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Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Eolls and theVice-Chancellor of England also sat at Westminsterduring the sittings, while in the intervals the formerpresided over the Eolls Court in Eolls Yard and thelatter over the Court which had been built for him onthe west side of Lincolns Inn Hall. The three Com-mon Law Courts, moreover, during term time, sat twelvedays at Westminster and twelve days at the Guildhall,while the Assizes were chiefly held during the vacations.The High Court of Admiralty held its sittings atDoctors Commons, in both the Instance Court andthe Prize Court, practically throughout the legal year,and so did the Ecclesiastical Courts. The BankruptcyCourt was in Basinghall Street; the Insolvent Debtors^Court in Lincolns Inn Fields, with an entrance fromPortugal Street. There were then no County Courts.The ancient Hundred and County Courts, with theirprimitive procedure, had long been disused. Certain Courts of Conscience or Courts of Eequest had,it is true, been established for particular localities at \
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LA W AND JUSTICE 239 tlie express request of the inhabitants, and these werestill being constituted in some of the large towns. Thenin London there were local Courts with a peculiar juris-diction, such as the City Courts, which would fill achapter by themselves, and of which it is enough to

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