The Court of King's Bench was a common law court in the English legal system that existed from around 1200 until 1873, emerging in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century out of the curia regis and, after traveling with the monarch, becoming permanently seated at Westminster Hall in 1318. Its jurisdiction covered criminal matters, cases involving the Crown, and general business not claimed by other courts, and it heard appeals from lower courts until 1830, while devices such as the Bill of Middlesex let it expand into civil disputes in competition with the Court of Chancery. Led by a Chief Justice, later the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, and typically three puisne justices, it was merged with the Common Pleas, the Exchequer, and the Court of Chancery into the new High Court of Justice under the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873, sitting for the last time on 6 July 1875 before continuing as the King's Bench Division of the High Court. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The King's Bench was merged into the High Court of Justice by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873, after which point the King's Bench was a division within the High Court.
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Before the King Himself, was a court of common law in the English legal system. Created in the late 12th to early 1
View the SourceJohn FitzJames (Wikipedia)
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1542) was Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1526 until 1539.
Christopher Wray (Wikipedia)
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Sir Christopher Wray (1524-7 May 1592) was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
William de Raley (Wikipedia)
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1485-21 June 1565) was Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench from 1552 to 1553.
Geoffrey le Scrope (Wikipedia)
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Sir Geoffrey le Scrope (1285-2 December 1340) was an English lawyer, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench for four periods between 1324 and 1338.
John Fortescue (judge) (Wikipedia)
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1394, December 1479), of Ebrington in Gloucestershire, was Chief Justice of the King's Bench and the author of De Laudibus Legum Angliae (Commendation of the Laws of England), first published posthumously circa 1543, an influential treatise on English law.
William de Thorpe (Wikipedia)
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Sir William de Thorpe (died 27 May 1361) was an English lawyer who was Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 26 November 1346 to 26 October 1350.
Richard de Willoughby (Wikipedia)
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1290-14 March 1362) was an English landowner, politician and judge from Nottinghamshire, who was Chief Justice of the King's Bench for three periods between 1332 and 1340.
Robert Tresilian (Wikipedia)
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Sir Robert Tresilian (died 19 February 1388) was a Cornish lawyer, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench between 1381 and 1387.
James Atkin, Baron Atkin (Wikipedia)
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Work at the King's Bench involved him in criminal cases, which had been outside his experience as an advocate, but he established a high reputation as a criminal judge.
Roger Brabazon (Wikipedia)
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1247-13-14 June 1317) was an English lawyer, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1296 to 1316.
John Markham (judge) (Wikipedia)
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Sir John Markham (died 1479) was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
William Hankford (Wikipedia)
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1350-1423), also written Hankeford, of Annery in Devon, was an English lawyer who acted as Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1413 until 1423.
Walter Clopton (Wikipedia)
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Sir Walter Clopton (died 1400) was an English lawyer, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1388 until his death in 1400.
William Blackstone (Wikipedia)
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Sir John Juyn (died 24 March 1440), SL, was an English judge who served as Chief Justice of the King's Bench (1439-40).
Robert de Malberthorp (Wikipedia)
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1331/1332) was an English lawyer, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench in 1329.
Henry Rolle (Wikipedia)
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1589-1656), of Shapwick in Somerset, was Chief Justice of the King's Bench and served as MP for Callington, Cornwall, (1614-1623-4) and for Truro, Cornwall (1625-1629).
Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden (Wikipedia)
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Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden (7 October 1762-4 November 1832), was a British barrister and judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench between 1818 and 1832.
John Fineux (Wikipedia)
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1441-1526) was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
John Knyvet (Wikipedia)
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He was Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1365 to 1372, and Lord Chancellor of England from 1372 to 1377.
William de Shareshull (Wikipedia)
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Sir William de Shareshull KB (1289/1290-1370) was an English lawyer and Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 26 October 1350 to 5 July 1361.
Richard Lyster (Wikipedia)
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1480-14 March 1554) was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
John Hody (Wikipedia)
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Sir John Hody (died 24 december 1441) of Stowell in Somerset and of Pilsdon in Dorset, was Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
Thomas Billing (Wikipedia)
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Sir Thomas Billing (died 1481) was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
Hervey de Stanton (Wikipedia)
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Hervey de Stanton (or Staunton) (1260, November 1327) was an English judge (serving both as Chief Justice of the King's Bench and as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas) and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Entick v Carrington (Wikipedia)
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