Justices

over idiots, lunajurisdiction of the Lord and commissions uncharities; the jurisdicrecords • in England. The are the Chief Justice of Chief Justice of the Cotiithe Vice-Chancellors of the Court of Pro- Matrimonial Causes, the Common Pleas, the junior of the High Court of England is President of divisions: the (21.) Chan- Bench Division; Exchequer Division; Division. To each the judges of the corresubstantially the same for its the Queen's Bench Division, and Chief Baron of the Exchequer mon Pleas. 26. The High Court tion chiefly appellate. It includes the Lord Chancellor, and of the and of the same court when sitting ruptcy; the jurisdiction of the the County Palatine of Lancaster, Duchy and County Palatine of or apart from the Lords Justices judge of rehearing or appeal from caster chancery courts; the the Stannaries and his assessors, the King or Queen in council, and Privy Council in admiralty and jurisdiction from the High Court this court to the House of Lords. Appeal are the Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Bolls, the Chief the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, judges of the court; also the Lords cery, and an additional judge ordinary judges of the court, and The Lord Chancellor is President C. The inferior English common generally throughout the kingdom, special nature, are as follows:

— Nisi Prius (v. Assize, Nisi Prius), and Terminer, succeeded the eyre. These Assizes are the jury cases by a jury of the county; formerly in the vacations after county except Middlesex; 1;wo appointed for each circuit, under (v. Assize), and all England being