. A manual of the general principles of law : as stated in Blackstone and the leading writers on the law of pleading ; together with a chapter of suggestions to students, and a law glossary ; collected and arranged so as to be more easily acquired by students, and readily reviewed by young practitioners. f a public offence. Fictions in law are those things that have no real essencein their own body, but are acknowledged and accepted inlaw for some special pm-pose. They are highly beneficialand useful, as the maxim is ever invariably observed thatno fiction shall extend to work an injury, its p
. A manual of the general principles of law : as stated in Blackstone and the leading writers on the law of pleading ; together with a chapter of suggestions to students, and a law glossary ; collected and arranged so as to be more easily acquired by students, and readily reviewed by young practitioners. f a public offence. Fictions in law are those things that have no real essencein their own body, but are acknowledged and accepted inlaw for some special pm-pose. They are highly beneficialand useful, as the maxim is ever invariably observed thatno fiction shall extend to work an injury, its proper opera-tion being to prevent a mischief, or remedy an inconvenience,that might result from the general rule of law. AS TO THEIR SPECIES.—Courts are of a publicor general juiisdiction, or otsiprivate or special jurisdiction. Courts of a public or g^eneral jurisdictionare: the Courts of Common Law and Equity, the Ecclesias-tical Courts, the Military Courts, and the Maritime Courts. Tlic Courts of Common Eaw and Equity are: the „ Court of Piepoudre, the Court Baron, the Hundred Court, the f County Court, the Court of Common Pleas, of Kings Bench,of Exchequer, of Chancery, of Exchequer Chamber, and theHouse of Peers, to which may be added, as auxiliaries, theCourts of Assize and Nisi t^/^^\K^J^ ^^ 0 ,^^,^, BLACKSTONE. The Court of Piepoudre, so called from the dusty-feet of the suitors, is a court of record Incident to every fairand market. They are instituted to do justice expeditiouslyamong the variety of persons that resort from distant placesto a fair or market. It is the lowest court. The Coart Baron is a court incident to every manorjof the kingdom, to he holden hy the steward within the said^ jp^f^ manor. T I (^ -A. Hundred Court is only a larger Court Baron .beingheld for aU the inhabitants of a particular hundred insteadof a manor,A County Court is a court incident to the jurisdictionthe sheriff. A Court of Common Pleas is for the trial of allmatters of l
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