Common Pleas
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
The name of a court of record having general original jurisdiction in civil suits. Common causes or suits. A term anciently used to denote civil actions, or those depending between subject and subject, as distinguished from pleas of the crown.
Dallett v. Feltus, 7 Phila. (Pa.) 627.