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 ni English law into courts of record and not of record. Th former have power to make up their acts and judicial pro ceedings 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. <SVe King's Bench. 2. The Court of Common Pleas. Common Pleas 3. The Court of Exchequer. See Exchequer". Four Superior Counsof Equity (see Chancery), being— 4. The High Court of Chancery. 5. The Rolls Court. 6. The Vice Chancellor's Court. 7. The Equity side of the Court of Exchequer. 8. The Ecclesiastical Courts. See Ecclesiasticaj Courts. 10.9. The The Court Prize Court.of Admiralty.See Admiralty.See Admiralty-. 11. The Courts of Bankruptcy. See Bankruptcy. The Courts of Error and Appeal are — 12. The Exchequer Chamber, from the Superior Common Law Courts. <S'ee Exchequer Chamber. 13. The Privy Council, and Judical Committee of the Privy Council, which are Courts of Appeal from the Ecclesiastical Courts, Admiralty, and also from the decisions of various Colonial Ju dicalures. 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. 310]