Hall

The superior courts, both of law and equity, were for centuries fixed at Westminster, an ancient palace of the monarchs of Evgland. Formerly, all the superior courts were held before the king’s capital justiciary of England, in the aula regis, or such of his palaces wherein his royal person resided, and removed with his househeld from one end of the kingdom to another. This was found to occasion great ineonvenience to the suilors, to remedy which if was made an article of the great charter of liberthe king’s court, but be held in some certain place,” in consequence of which they have ever since been held (a few necessary removals in timés of the plague excepted) in the palace of Westminster only. The courts of equity also sit at Westminster, nominally, during term-time, although, actually, only during the first day of term, for they generally sit in courts provided for the purpose in, or in the neighborhood of, Lincoln’s Inn. Brown.