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Coram non judice

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In presence of a person not a judge. When a suit is brought and determined in a court which has no jurisdiction in the matter, then it is said to be coram non judice, and the judgment is void.

Manufacturing Co. v. Holt, 51 W. Va. 352, 41 S. E. 351.