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Court of Requests
f. Court of Requests (also, in sense 11f(b) and 11f(c), Court of Request).
(a) A court of equity dealing with petitions for relief to the King or Queen, presided over by the Lord Privy Seal and the Master of Requests and virtually abolished during the reign of Elizabeth I. Now historical.On the origin and history of the court see J.S. Leadam Select Cases in Court of Requests (1898).
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King's Benchc1390
Court of Requests1487
chancery1523
1487 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1941) 56 301 The same day..there passed a byll for the Court of Request that it is annulled, and it shall be occupied no more.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cliii. f. lxxxii A court or counceyll,..lyke vnto the Court of requestys, nowe at this day holden in Englonde.
1529 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Court of Requests (1898) Introd. 14 Hereafter folowe the names of such Counseillours as be appoynted for the heryng of power mennes causes in the Kynges courte of Requestes.
a1601 W. Lambarde Archion (1635) 26 The Court of Requests, that specially heareth the Suits of poore men, and the Princes servants.
1640–4 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 1 The King..came Accompanied with his Nobles through Westminster-hall and the Court of Requests, to the Abbey.
1669 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 2) xii. 217 He [the Lord Privy Seal] is by his Place of the Kings Privy Council, and Chief Judge of the Court of Requests, when it shall be re-continued.
1680 J. Dryden in N. Lee Cæsar Borgia Prol. sig. A4 One Theatre there is of vast resort, Which whilome of Requests was call'd the Court.
1735 Court Mercury (title page) In the Passage leading from Westminster-Hall to the Court of Request.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 421 A kind of hall.., called the Court of Requests, used chiefly by those who attend the parliament to walk in.
1838 T. B. Macaulay Sir William Temple in Ess. (1887) 484 When he [Swift] stood in the Court of Requests, with a circle of gartered peers round him.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) vii. 78 We have heard of Fox's Book of Martyrs, I believe, and we have heard of the Court of Requests, and the Star Chamber.
1907 E. Percy Privy Council under Tudors vii. 47 The Court of Requests..had been active..since the beginning of Henry VII's reign.
1979 P. Williams Tudor Regime (BNC) (1991) 87 In 1589 Richard Lane asked for the reversion to the post of attorney in the Court of Requests.
(b) A local court for the recovery of small debts.The constitution and practice of these courts varied in different localities; they were abloished by the County Court Act of 1846, with the exception of the City of London court which was assimilated into the ordinary County Court system by the County Court Act of 1888.
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Court of Conscience1603
Court of Requests1603
Court of Inquest1706
county court1846
bankruptcy court1864
1603–4 Act 1 James I c. 14 §1 The Court of Requestes comonlie called The Courte of Conscience, in the Guild Hall of the same Citie.
1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) iii. x. 355 There is a Court of Request or Conscience, so call'd, because medling with nothing above 40s. value.
1749 Act 22 Geo. II c. 47 §1 Such Commissioners are hereby constituted a Court of Justice, by the Name of The Court of Requests for the Town and Borough of Southwark.
1798 W. Hutton Life 123 Courts of Requests or Courts of Conscience, for the recovery of small debts, were first established in the reign of Henry VIII., and they now exist under local Acts, in many populous places.
1837 2nd Rep. Munic. Corporations Eng. & Wales 12 There are two Courts of Requests within the limits of the Corporate jurisdiction; one for London..and the other for Southwark.
1845 Act 8 & 9 Victoria c. 127 §10 Every Judge of any such Court of Requests, or Conscience..shall be removable by the Lord Chancellor for Misbehaviour or Incapacity.
1882 W. Ballantine Some Exper. Barrister's Life ii. 24 Here and there in the metropolis were dotted small debts courts..called Courts of Request.
1991 H. Barty-King Worst Poverty (BNC) By 1830 the number of towns which had obtained Acts of Parliament to have their own Courts of Requests..had risen to fifty-four.
(c) In India under British rule: a court for the recovery of small debts composed of military officers, held in districts which are outside the jurisdiction of any ordinary court of this kind. Now historical.
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Court of Requests1876
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 338/1 In each military cantonment a court of request is assembled monthly, and all persons are amenable to it except soldiers in the ranks.
1879 Act 42 & 43 Vict. c. 33 §142 Courts of request under this Act shall in all practicable cases consist of five officers.
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