COMMON PLEAS

Definition: COMMON PLEAS

COMMON PLEAS

1. One of the three superior courts of common law at Westminster, presided over by a chief justice and four puisne judges. Its jurisdiction is confined to civil matters. Courts bearing this title exist in several of the United States, having, however, in some cases, both civil and criminal jurisdiction extending over the whole State. In other States the jurisdiction of the common pleas is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a county court . Its powers are generally defined by statute.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Literature

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Tribunal

Assize, eyre; wardmote, burghmote; barmote; superior courts of Westminster; court of record, court oyer and terminer, court assize, court of appeal, court of error; High court of Judicature, High court of Appeal; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; Star Chamber; Court of Chancery, Court of King's or Queen's Bench, Court of Exchequer, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Probate, Court of Arches, Court of Admiralty; Lords Justices' court, Rolls court, Vice Chancellor's court, Stannary court, Divorce court, Family court, Palatine court, county court, district court, police court; sessions; quarter sessions, petty sessions; court-leet, court-baron, court of pie poudre, court of common council; board of green cloth.

Crosswords: COMMON PLEAS

Books

• Court of Common Pleas (reference)

• Greene County, Tennessee minutes of the Court of Common Pleas, 1783-1795 (reference)

• Mecklenburg County, North Carolina: Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1801-1820 (reference)

• The Court of Common Pleas (reference)

• The Hawkins County Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas, 1822-1825: And Fragment for the Period, November 1827-August, 1828 (reference)

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Common pleas shall not follow our court, but shall be held in some fixed place. (reference)

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Economic History

Palau

Judicial--Supreme Court, National Court, Court of Common Pleas, and the Land Court. (references)

Palau

The judicial system consists of the Supreme Court, National Court, the Court of Common Pleas, and the Land Court. (references)

Human Rights

Saudi Arabia

More serious crimes are adjudicated in Shari'a courts of common pleas. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "COMMON PLEAS": Court of Common pleas. Additional references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: commensal, moonscape.

-3 letters: consomme, lampoons, monocles, neoplasm, pleonasm.

-4 letters: almsmen, coeloms, colones, commons, compels, compone, compose, console, copalms, encamps, enclasp, escalop, espanol, lampoon, monocle, plasmon, pomaces, pomelos, pommels, psammon, spancel.

-5 letters: ammono, amoles, anoles, aslope, camels, cameos, campos, canoes, capons, celoms, clamps, cleans, clomps, clones, coelom, colone, colons, commas, common, comose, compel, compos, consol.

+1 letter: commonplaces.

+4 letters: commonplaceness, uncompromisable.

+5 letters: complementations.

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