Judge Ordinary
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
By St. 20 & 21 Vict. c.
85, § 9, the judge of the court of probate was made judge of the court for divorce and matrimonial causes created by that act, under the name of "judge ordinary." In Scotland, the title "judge ordinary" applied to all those judges, whether supreme or inferior, who, by the nature of their office, have a fixed and determinate jurisdiction in all actions of the same general nature, as contradistinguished from the old Scotch privy council, or from those judges to whom some special matter is committed; such as commissioners for taking proofs, and messengers at arms.
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