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The King’s Household

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A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In English law. A court which had jurisdiction — of all cases of treason, misprisiun of treason, murder, manslaughter, bloodshed, and other malicious strikings whereby blood is shed, occurring in or within the limits of any of the palaces or houses of the king, or any other house where the royal person ig abiding. It was created by statute 33 Hen. VIII. e. 12, but long since fell into disuse. 4 BL Comm. 276, 277, and notes.