Marshalsea

COURT OF. A court originally held before the steward and marshal of the royal household. It was instituted to administer justice between the servants of the king's household, that they might not be drawn into other courts, and their services lost. It was anciently ambulatory; but Charles I. erected a court of record, by the name of curia palatii, to be held before the steward of the household, etc., to hold pleas of all personal actions which should arise within twelve miles of the royal palace at Whitehall, not including the city of London. This court was held weekly, to determine causes involving less than twenty pounds, together -with the ancient court of Marshalsea, in the borough of Southwark. A writ of error lay thence to the king's bench. Both courts were abolished by St. 12 & 13 Vict. c. 101, § 13. See Jacob; Wishaw. MARTE SUO DECURRERE (Lat. to run by its own force). A term applied in the civil law to a suit when it ran its course to the end, without any impediment. Calv. Lex.; Brissonius.

COURT OF. See Court OF THE MARSHALSEA; BiLL OF MIDDLESEX; CouBT OF Kino’s Bench.