Definition of Central Criminal Court

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Central Criminal Court
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    The court having jurisdiction of crimes committed in London, Middlesex and Surrey.

  • Central Criminal Court
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    An English court, having jurisdiction for the trial of crimes and misdemeanors committed in London and certain adjoining parts of Kent, Essex, and Sussex, and of such other criminal cases as may be sent to it out of the king's bench, though arising beyond its proper jurisdiction. It was constituted by the acts 4 & 5 Wm. IV. c. 36, and 19 & 20 Viet c. 16, and superseded the "Old Bailey."