Marshal

A high court, formerly held in England by the steward and marshal of the king's household, having jurisdiction of all actions against the king's peace within the bounds of the household for twelve miles, which circuit was called the verge.

Cra Ws Hist. Eng. Law, 186.

It had also jurisdiction of actions of debt and covenant, where both the parties were of the household.

2 Reeves' Hist. Eng. Law, 236, 247.

This court had the same origin with the King's Bench, being like it an emanation from the curia regis, and obliged to attend the king vhicunquefuerit in Anglia, Crab Vs Hist. 416. The steward was the judge of this court, and the marshal the ministerial officer.* Id. 186.

2 Reeves' Hist 236, 247, 249, 420.

COURT OF WARDS AND LIVE-