Justice Seat

See Court of Justice Seat.

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

Defined under Justice in 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 pleas and causes arising in the forest

In English law. The principal court of the forest, held before the chief justice in eyre, or clief itinerant judge, or his deputy; to hear and determine all Lrespasses 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.

held before the Chief Justice in Eyre trespasses, claims of franchise, and other causes. obsolete before the Restoration. Courts. 79. The Ecclesiastical Courts, In Norman times, these courts conor synods, composed entirely or partly of jurisdiction of crimes or delicts, and even land. These councils were national, prothe first resembled the lay Witenagemote; origin of the ecclesiastical court of modern has jurisdiction of matters ecclesiastical or of tithes, etc.), matrimonial (affecting sexes, legitimacy, divorce, etc.), and testaof wills, legacies, etc.). The last two were transferred to the Court of Probate Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (Court, 51, vested in the Supreme Court of Judicature. courts was founded in the civil and are not courts of record. They are seven in