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King's Bench
[See bench n. 2 b.]
A former court of record and the supreme court of common law in the kingdom; now, under the Judicature Act of 1873, represented by the King's Bench division of the High Court of Justice.
1362–[see bench n. 2 b].
b. In full, King's Bench Prison. A jail formerly appropriated to debtors and criminals confined by authority of the supreme courts at Westminster, etc.
1428E.E. Wills (1882) 78 The prisons of Ludgate, Marchalsie, Kyngesbenche, And the Countours in London. 1436Ibid. 106 The Prisoners of the Kynggis bench. 1501Bury Wills (Camden) 89 To the prisoners in Newgate, Ludgate, to the Kyngs Benche, and to the Marshalsy, to eche of them vj s. viij d. 1849Dickens Dav. Copp. xlix, My feet will naturally tend towards the King's Bench Prison. 1898Besant Orange Girl ii. xxvi, A Newgate bird and a bird of the King's Bench. |