Curia regis
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat.
In old English law
The king's court; the supreme court of the kingdom, established by the Norman princes.
Crah Vs Hist. Eng. Law, 51.
Otherwise called curia m>agna, and aula regis.
Id, 144.
The aula regis, the bancus, (afterwards the common bench,) and the iter or eyre, are all called by Bracton curicB regi Sf the king's courts; though the first of these was so in a peculiar sense, being held before the sovereign in person, {coram ipso rege.) Bract, fol.
105 b, 361 b, 362.
An ancient name of parliament. Stai, Mert. pr. Bract, fol.
227 b.