COURT PLASTER

Black silk varnished over with a solution of isingla , which is often perfumed with benzoin. COURTS OF JUSTICE, are divided by the rules of English law into courts of record and not of record. The former have power to make up their acts and judicial proceedmgs in the form technically called a record, as evidence of their judgment. All courts having power to fine or imprison are said to be impliedly courts of record; but this seems questionable. The courts termed Superior are divided into those of Law, Equity, Ecclesiastical, Maritime, Prize or International, and Courts of Appeal and Error. They are, — Three Superior Courts of Common Law {see Courts, Superior), being — 1. The Court of King's Bench. Set- King's Bench. 2. The Court of Common Pleas. See Common Pleas. 3. The Court of Exchequer. See Exchequer. Four Superior Courts of Equity {see Chancery), being The High Court of Chancery. The Rolls Court. The Vice-Chancellor's Court. 7. The Equity side of the Court of Exchequer. 8. The Ecclesiastical Courts. See Ecclesiastical Courts. 9. The Court of Admiralty. See Admiralty. 10. The Prize Court. See Admiralty. 11. The Courts of Bankruptcy. See Bankruptcy. The Courts of Error and Appeal are — 12. The Exchequer Ch^nber, from the Superior Common Law Courts. See Exchequer Chamber. 13. The Privy Council, and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which are Courts of Appeal from the Ecclesiastical Courts, Admiralty, and also from the decisions of various Colonial Judicatures. 14. The High Court of Parliament. See Parliament. Inferior Courts are numerous, both of record and not of record; being for the most part local jurisdictions of very various extent and authority. To these belong the Courts of Conscience and Requests, Courts Baron, Hundred Courts, Borough Courts, and County Courts, in which the sheriff presides. COURTS, [s. 307]