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Justice seat

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

Black's Law Dictionary

In English law

The principal court of the forest, held before the chief justice in eyre, or chief itinerant judge, or his deputy; to hear and determine all trespasses within the forest, and all claims of franchises, liberties, and privileges. and all pleas and causes whatsoever therein arising.

3 Bl. Comm. 72; 4 Inst. 291; 3 Steph. Comm. 440