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Palace Court, ˈpalace-ˈcourt
[= Court of the or a palace.]
1. Name of a court formerly held at the Marshalsea and having jurisdiction in personal actions arising within twelve miles of the palace of Whitehall, the city of London excepted: see quots.
1685Termes de la Ley 525 Palace-Court, is a Court of Record,..held at Southwark, and is a Court of Common Law. 1766Entick London IV. 385. 1768 Blackstone Comm. III. 76 King Charles I in the sixth year of his reign by his letters patent erected a new court of record, called the curia palatii or palace court, to be held before the steward of the household and knight marshal, and the steward of the court, or his deputy. 1773W. Salkeld's Rep. K.B. 439 This must have been to the Palace Court, where neither plaintiff nor defendant must be of the king's house⁓hold; but, in a suit in the Marshalsea, both must be of the king's household. [1849Act 12 & 13 Vict. c. 101 §14 From and after the thirty-first day of December 1849 all the power, authority, and jurisdiction of the said Court of the Marshalsea, and of the said Court of the Palace of the Queen at Westminster..shall cease and determine.] 1891C. R. Scargill-Bird Guide to P.R.O. Introd. 26.
2. The court-yard of a palace.
1801Southey Thalaba viii. xxxv, Open fly the iron doors, The doors of the palace-court. 1855Kingsley Heroes, Theseus ii. 211 His palace-court is full of their bones. |