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5. The King's (Court, 11) were the two roi/al The King's Court consisted of a the King, and was, in a sense, but with much wider jurisdicusurped the jurisdiction of ihe popthis respect also from the Aula from them. In the twelfth cencreated, five persons being apand in 1179, its justiciars were and in the presence of the King larger King's Court, now called the King's person and had apsmaller King's Court. The former Council (Court, 14); the latter, of of the Judicature Act, the three law, which, with the Court the four Superior courts of Bench; (10.) the Common The King's Bench or Queen's theory followed the King's highest court of common law in England; had four puisne justices and a chief justice, who was the Chief Justice of England; took cognizance of criminal cases on the cro'wn side or ' cro-wn office, and of civil cases on the plea side. Tormerly, its civil jurisdiction was confined to trespasses vi et armis, on the theory that they were an ofience against the King's peace; hut by the fictions of the Bill of Middlesex and Latitat (v. Bill, I. 8), it usurped jurisdiction over aU personal actions. See also