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Court of King's Bench: Crown Side: Records in Error
Catalogue reference: KB 7
What's it about?
KB 7
Most of the records are of cases before the Irish Court of King's Bench in Dublin brought before the Court of King's Bench at Westminster on a writ of error. The remainder are records in error from the King's Bench itself to the House of...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- KB 7
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court of King's Bench: Crown Side: Records in Error
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1737-1836
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Description (What the record is about)
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Most of the records are of cases before the Irish Court of King's Bench in Dublin brought before the Court of King's Bench at Westminster on a writ of error. The remainder are records in error from the King's Bench itself to the House of Lords.
Each filing consists of a roll giving the record of the original hearing, with the writ of error and other items relating to the error proceedings attached.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 17 files and rolls
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Ireland
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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By virtue of its superior jurisdiction King's Bench was entitled to hear proceedings on writs alleging error in the Irish courts in Dublin; from King's Bench itself error then lay to the House of Lords. The records of its Irish jurisdiction from 1737 are found here. In 1783, by 23 Geo III c28, s2, the King's Bench jurisdiction in error over Irish courts was abolished and such records cease. The remaining records are proceedings in the House of Lords on allegations of error in King's Bench.
Writs of error were abolished in 1852 by 15 & 16 Vict c76, s 148, when proceedings in error became a 'step in the cause' rather than separate action in its own right, and jurisdiction in error was finally abolished in 1875 (36 & 37 Vict c 66, sch 1, ord. 49), having already been replaced by the creation of a system of appeals.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10011/
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Court of King's Bench: Crown Side: Records in Error
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