King's Chambers
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Those portions of the seas, adjacent to the coasts of Qr«at Britain, which are inclosed within headlatids, so as to be cut off from the open sea by imagfinary straight lines drawn from one promontory to another. Rapalje & L. KING'S (or QUEEN'S) COUNSEL. Barristers or Serjeants who have been called within the bar, and selected to be the king's counsel. They answer in some measure to the advocati fisd, or advocates of the revenue, among the Romans. They must not be employed against the crown without special leave, which is, however, always granted, at a cost of about nine pounds.
3 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 27, note.
KING'S (or QUEEN'S) EVIDENCE.
In English law
An accomplice in a felony, who, on an implied promise of pardon if he fully and fairly discloses the truth, is admitted as evidence for crown against his accomplices. See "State's Evidence." KING'S (or QUEEN'S) SILVER. A fine or payment due to the king for leave to agree in order to levying a fine (finalis concordia).
2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 350; Dyer, 320, pi. 19; 1 Leon, 249, 250; 2 Leon, 56, 179, 233, 234; 5 Coke, 39.