Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . -, and of the Orphans courts in counties of less than one 104 The Judicial System hundred and fifty thousand inhahitants. \\ithin their respect-ive districts they are justices of the peace in criminal matters. From the early times of the colony under one name or an-other the Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions courts have heenthe popular tribunals of the Commonwealth for the attainment. Walter II. Lowric .\uthor; judge District Court, .AlleghanyCounty. 1846-1851; associate justice State Su-preme Court, 1851-1857; chief justice, 1857-186
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . -, and of the Orphans courts in counties of less than one 104 The Judicial System hundred and fifty thousand inhahitants. \\ithin their respect-ive districts they are justices of the peace in criminal matters. From the early times of the colony under one name or an-other the Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions courts have heenthe popular tribunals of the Commonwealth for the attainment. Walter II. Lowric .\uthor; judge District Court, .AlleghanyCounty. 1846-1851; associate justice State Su-preme Court, 1851-1857; chief justice, 1857-1863. From a photograph in possession of theWestern University of Pennsylvania of rights, the redress of grievances and the punishment of of-fenses against the law. Each still retains .something of itsoriginal character, and in the writs, trials and judgments thereis still preserved that which suggests the s])irit and custom ofthe colonial period, and also the basic principle of these courts—the Common Pleas, Assizes, Exchequer and Oueens Bench ofEngland. 105 Pennsylvania Colonial and h^ciicral Oil)hans courts, one of \\liich exists in each county in theState, for two hunched years and more have been closely alliedto the Common T^leas. althou^h in the depri\ation of their p<n\-ers and in their practice and ])ur])oses tlie\ are entire])- Orphans court was established in the colony 1)\- act of theassembly passed in 1683, an
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