单词 | kings bench |
释义 | King's Benchn. 1. Chiefly with the. Originally: a court of record and the supreme court of common law in England and Wales (now historical). In later use: spec. (during the reign of a king) one of the three divisions of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales (more fully King's Bench Division). Cf. Queen's Bench n.The later specific sense was established by the Judicature Act of 1873. Cf. chancery n. 2a, family division n. (b) at family n. and adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > King's or Queen's Bench King's Benchc1390 Bank Royalc1450 Upper Bench1649 Queen's Bench1665 society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court of record > types of King's Benchc1390 Court of Requests1487 chancery1523 c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. 95 To ben Clerkes of þe kynges Benche. 1423–4 Guildhall Let.-bk. in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 105 (MED) Þe same fals dede..þei sealled..and..endorsed hit on þe bakke as it hadde be enrolled in þe kyngesbenche. a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 146 (MED) The kyngis counsell..like as þe Justices off þe kynges benche and off þe Common place, be sworne when thai take ther offices. 1514–15 Act 6 Henry VIII c. 6 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 128 The Justices of the Kinges Benche..have full auctoritie..to remaunde and send downe, aswell the bodies of all felons and murderers..as their Inditements. 1589 Sir T. Smith's Common-welth (rev. ed.) ii. xiii. 71 The officers in the Kings Bench are, the chiefe Protonotharie, the Secondarie, the Clarke of the Crowne, [etc.]. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. T2/1 The Lord cheife Iustice of the kings bench, is the soueraigne coroner of the whole realme. 1698 R. Ferguson View Ecclesiastick 77 If..he should perjuriously depose at the Kings Bench. a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) I. 130 The Court of Common Pleas had been outwitted by the Kings Bench, till his Lordship came upon the cushion. 1783 Ann. Reg. 1781 193/1 The matter came into the court of King's Bench. 1838 B. Disraeli Let. ?7 June (1987) III. 62 I am engaged in very important business about the Information in the King's Bench, which has been granted against me. 1871 Dublin Univ. Mag. Sept. 297/2 It is said..that Lord Clonmel, then chief-justice of the King's Bench, was in the running for the seals. 1915 Times 13 Jan. 4/1 Miss Gladys Buckmaster..was awarded £1,200 damages yesterday, in an action for libel, heard in the King's Bench Division. 1940 F. D. MacKinnon On Circuit 15 I left the King's Bench in 1937. 2008 D. Starkey Henry (2009) xxv. 349 Charles Brandon, Thomas's nephew and already one of Henry's closest cronies, succeeded his uncle as marshal of King's Bench. 2. In full King's Bench Prison. Chiefly with the. A prison in Southwark, London, for debtors and criminals jailed by the supreme courts at Westminster. Now historical.King's Bench Prison closed in 1880. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > specific prisons King's Bench1427 marshalsea1436 tunc1503 chateleta1513 clinkc1530 the Fleet1530 Bocardo1535 bastille1561 Poultry Compter1644 Whit1673 the Moor1869 the Ville1903 the Scrubs1923 H-block1976 Mandela University1986 1427 in E. F. Jacob & H. C. Johnson Reg. Henry Chichele (1937) II. 357 (MED) Lego incarceratis [in] hiis quinque carceribus, videlicet, Ludgate, Newgate, Flete, Kyngesbenche, et Marchalsie. 1436 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 106 The Prisoners of the Kynggis bench. 1501 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 89 To the prisoners in Newgate, Ludgate, to the Kyngs Benche, and to the Marshalsy, to eche of them vj s. viij d. 1570 M. Parker Corr. (1853) (modernized text) cclxxvii. 364 Before Easter I gave him liberty to be an open prisoner in the King's Bench, where before he was a close prisoner. 1648 L. Dyve Let. to Gentleman 3 From the Kings Bench Barre, I was immediately turn'd over to be a Prisoner at the Kings Bench, without any due Processe or forme of Law. 1679 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 26 Thomas Knox and John Lane were..committed to the kings bench prison. 1729 A. Bernardi Humble Petition in J. Bernardi Short Hist. Life 121 Praying..that he might for the Present..be removed from Newgate to the King's-Bench Prison. 1788 E. Farley Imprisonment for Debt 121 A debtor in the King's Bench prison was advised by his attorney to move himself by a habeas corpus..to the Fleet prison. 1808 S. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 127/1 Absenting themselves from their benefices by a kind of day-rule, like prisoners in the King's Bench. 1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield xlix. 498 My feet will naturally tend towards the King's Bench Prison. 1899 W. Besant Orange Girl ii. xxvi. 432 A Newgate bird and a bird of the King's Bench. 1966 G. Heyer Black Sheep x. 151 Mr Calverleigh,..seeing the shadow of the King's Bench Prison creeping inexorably towards him, had abandoned the hope of winning his heiress. 1991 H. Barty-King Worst Poverty iv. 100 The warden of The Fleet and the marshal of the King's Bench Prison..should be compensated. 2014 J. Lopez Constructing Canon Early Mod. Drama ii. xxxi. 106 Between 1613 and 1619 Dekker was imprisoned in the King's Bench for debt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1390 |
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