Courts

holden before their stewof error lay to the (60.) Court recorder, and sheriffs; and the King's commission, who sat; thence to the House of Court for the City of Lonnow become the county court for Court in London has ^oth; and is presided over by the Common Sergeant. The (63.) Requests were tribunals, not of other towns, for the recovery by the county courts, and of Policies of Assurance for determining summarily all insurance on merchandise in Lonlong before obsolete.

65.

The estabhshed in Oxford and Cam- Court had jurisdiction of perof members of the University; High Steward had jurisdiction committed by members of the governed by the rules of the particularly in Cambridge, The courts of the Counties court of mixed jurisdiction, has of Common Pleas at Lan- Durham have lost their jurisof 1873; but the Chancery retained.

71.

The Courts of the private courts of extensive juris- FV. and 1 Will. IV., when Wales the judges of assize.

72.

The of Devonshire and Vice-Warden, with This appellate of Appeal; and the county court.

In or Berghmote Great and Small, of the Peak. 74. ment of the ^m^s or covert.

They ■Wood-mote, or the forest, to inquire the (76.) Court of S'v^einmote, held inquire into grievances and to try presentments and of (78.) to determine all All these courts were F. Ecclesiastical or Courts Christian. sisted of councils, the clergy, and had of causes concerning vincial, or diocesan; the last was the times. This last pecuniary (withholding the relations of the mentary (the probate kinds of jurisdiction and the Court for 52), and are now The law of ecclesiastical canon law; and they number: the Court of Arches, the of the two archbishops, Cornwall. They were presided over by the appeal to the Lord Warden, of the Stannaries. jurisdiction is now transferred to the High Court plaintiff may, in the first instance, sue in the like manner, there are two (73.) Barmote