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Records of the court of King's Bench and related courts from 1194 to 1987 relating to litigation in which the state has an interest. The records have been divided into Crown Side records and Plea Side records. The following series numbers have...
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KB
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of the Court of King's Bench and other courts
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Date (When the record was created)
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1194-1987
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the court of King's Bench and related courts from 1194 to 1987 relating to litigation in which the state has an interest.
The records have been divided into Crown Side records and Plea Side records.
The following series numbers have not been used: KB 38, KB 40 - KB 100, KB 108, KB 110, KB 117, KB 120, KB 129 - KB 132, KB 142 and KB 143.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Court Coram Rege, 1200-1270
- Court of Kings Bench, 1200-1875
- Supreme Court of Judicature, Kings Bench Division, 1901-1952
- Supreme Court of Judicature, Queens Bench Division, 1875-1901
- Supreme Court of Judicature, Queens Bench Division, 1952-1952
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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174 series
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Court of Kings Bench
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- Litigation
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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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Pleas Coram Rege, c1175-1216
Under Henry II innovations in law and legal procedures prompted clearer organisation of the ways in which the judicial functions were discharged. Sometimes, as in 1178, judges accompanying the king to hear cases and (if necessary) to refer decisions direct to the king. This development did not establish a distinct and permanent court, but it did establish the principle of pleas heard regularly and formally within the king's immediate purview, even if not always in his actual presence (coram ipso rege), rather than by the itinerant justices, by the somewhat separate departmental jurisdiction of the Exchequer, or by the incipient common Bench (Court of Common Pleas) based at Westminster.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- For the general history of the court within the legal system, see J H Baker, An introduction to English legal history (third edition, London, 1990). The court's bureaucracy is surveyed by C A F Meekings, 'King's Bench files', in J H Baker, ed., Legal records and the historian (London: Royal Historical Society, 1978). An important practitioners' manual is J Trye, Jus filizarii: or, the filacer's office in the Court of King's Bench (London, 1684) Some verbatim reports of proceedings in the court, though in exceptional cases only, can be found in A complete collection of state trials..., ed. T B Howell (London, 1816). Selected cases from 1272 to 1422 are transcribed and translated in Selden Society volumes LV, XLVII, XLVIII, LXXIV, LXXVI, LXXXII, and LXXXVIII, edited by G O Sayles, whose introductions are extremely valuable for the early history of the court. J H Baker's introductions to Selden Society volumes XCIV and CII contain similarly important details of the court in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C184/
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