单词 | pleas of the crown |
释义 | > as lemmasPleas of the Crown c. Pleas of the Crown [after post-classical Latin placita Coronae (1130, 1215, 1586 in British sources)] : (originally) legal proceedings in which the Crown had a financial interest (as by exacting a fine), as distinct from those involving claims between subjects (cf. Common Pleas n.); (later) all criminal as opposed to civil proceedings, being regarded as conduct committed against the Crown (in Scotland, historically limited to proceedings concerned with murder, rape, robbery, and arson). Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [noun] > Crown or criminal proceedings Pleas of the Crown?1530 ?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. *Bv The plees of the crowne were holden in the Towre. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Ccc1v/2 Pleas of the Crowne in Scotland be 4. roberie, rape, murder, and wilfull fire..with vs they be all suites in the Kings name against offences committed against his Crowne and dignitie... or against his Crowne and peace. 1635 W. Lambarde & T. Lambarde Archeion (new ed.) 20 The Courts of Law doe either hold civill, or criminall Causes (more anciently tearmed Common Pleas, and Pleas of the Crowne). 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan xxvii. 161 The pleas according thereunto called Publique, Judicia Publica, Pleas of the Crown; or Private Pleas. 1705 Atholl MSS 18 Apr. It being a premeditat murder its declared by our law to be one of the four pleyes of the croun. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. i. 2 The code of criminal law; or, as it is more usually denominated with us in England, the doctrine of the pleas of the crown. 1800 D. Hume Trial for Crimes I. 94 The customary rule..which reserves to the Justice and his deputes, and now to the Lords of Justiciary, the peculiar cognizance of the crimes of murder, robbery, rape and fire-raising, the four pleas (as they are therefore called) of the Crown. 1895 F. Pollock & F. W. Maitland Hist. Eng. Law II. 571 More native to our law was the distinction between Pleas of the Crown and Common Pleas, which was often supposed to coincide with, though really it cut, the more cosmopolitan distinction [i.e. between civil and criminal]. 1962 3rd Statist. Acct. Scotl. 82 There is no High Court in the county and all ‘Pleas of the Crown’ must be heard in the High Court of Justiciary in Glasgow or Edinburgh. 1984 P. F. Smith & S. H. Bailey Mod. Eng. Legal Syst. i. 3 Its main function was to deal with what are now called criminal cases—pleas of the Crown. < as lemmas |
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