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A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
Up to 1180, the court of common pleas followed the king's household from one end of the kingdom to the other. For the convenience of suitors, Magna Charta provided that the court should "be held in some certain place." This place has ever since been Westminster, or Westminster Hall, where the aula regis originally sat, when the king resided there, i