• Formerly, the highest court of common law in England;
    -- so called because the king used to sit there in person. It consisted
    of a chief justice and four puisne, or junior, justices. During the
    reign of a queen it was called the Queens Bench. Its jurisdiction was
    transferred by the judicature acts of 1873 and 1875 to the high court
    of justice created by that legislation.


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