Passage Court

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

An ancient court of record in Liverpool, once called the “mayor’s court of pays sar/c,” but now usually called the “court of the passage of the borough of Liverpool.” M. & W.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

An ancient court of record in Liverpool, once called the "mayor's court of pays sage," but now usually called the "court of the passage of the borough of Liverpool." This court was formerly held before the mayor and two balliffs of the borough, and had jurisdiction in actions where the amount in question exceeded forty shillings. Mozley & Whitley.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

An ancient court of record in Liverpool, once called the mayor's court of pays sage, but now usually called the court of the passage of the borough of Liverpool. This court was formerly held before the mayor and two bailiffs of the borough, and had jurisdiction in actions where the amount in question exceeded forty shillings. In 1834, the Stat. 4 & 5 Wm. IV. ch. 92, was passed for amending the proceedings and practice of this court. It provided that the court might be held before the mayor and bailiffs, or before the mayor and one of the bai Uffs, or before the two bailiffs only; and that it should be lawful for his majesty, his heirs and successors, to appoint a barristerat-law, of not less than seven years' standing, to be assistant to the mayor and bailiffs in the trial of causes and the hearing of arguments; and that the mayor and bailiffs should not sit without the assistance of such barrister. Actions brought in this court, where the amount in question does not exceed £20, are not to be removable therefrom except by writ of error. By Stat. the presence of the mayor and aldermen. The procedure of the court is further amended by Stat. 1 & 2 Vict. ch. 99, passed in 1838. Mozley ^ W.