Ableman v. Booth; United States v. Booth
21 How. (62 U.S.) 506 (1859), argued 19 Jan. 1859, decided 7 Mar. 1859 by vote of 9 to 0; Taney for the Court. In the spring of 1854, Benjamin S. Garland, a slaveowner from Missouri, went to ...
Aboriginal peoples
The first reported decision of the High Court in which an Aboriginal person was a party to the proceedings seems to have been Tuckiar v The King (1934). This was ...
action
N.A proceeding in which a party pursues a legal right in a civil court. See also in personam; in rem.
Administration of Court
The administration of the Court underwent its most significant change in 1980. The reforms introduced by the High Court of Australia Act 1979 (Cth) replaced the long-standing arrangement under which ...
administrative law
The branch of public law governing the exercise of powers and duties by public authorities. It is particularly concerned with the control of public power by judicial review and by non-judicial ...
Admiralty
The law of admiralty encompasses claims which were originally within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty Court of England and Wales and which are now governed by the Admiralty Act 1988 ...
bill of Rights
A statement of the privileges, immunities, and authorities to act that may be legally and morally claimed by the citizens of a state within the bounds of reason, truth, and the accepted standards of ...
Boilermakers Case
(1956)concerned a challenge by the Boilermakers' Society of Australia to sections 29 and 29A of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904 (Cth), which empowered the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation ...
Bradwell v. Illinois
16 Wall. (83 U.S.) 130 (1873), argued 18 Jan. 1873, decided 15 Apr. 1873 by vote of 8 to 1; Miller for the Court, Bradley, Field, and Swayne concurring, Chase in dissent. Myra Bradwell (1831–1894), ...
Caledonian Collieries Cases
(1930).In the Coal Vend Case (1911), it was alleged that colliery owners in the NSW Hunter Valley were manipulating the interstate supply and price of coal. Isaacs made a ...
chambers
Pl. n.1 The offices occupied by a barrister or group of barristers. (The term is also used for the group of barristers practising from a set of chambers.)2 The private office of a judge, master, or ...
Chinese Exclusion Cases
A series of disputes settled by the Supreme Court during the 1880s and 1890s: Chew Heong v. United States, 112 U.S. 536 (1884), argued 30 Oct. 1884, decided 8 Dec. 1884 by vote of 7 to 2, Harlan for ...
Circumspecte Agatis
Though previous kings, both before and after the conquest of England, had issued writs confirming the freedoms of the church, and in particular the jurisdiction of the church, this English ...
common law
1 The part of English law based on rules developed by the royal courts during the first three centuries after the Norman Conquest (1066) as a system applicable to the whole country, as opposed to ...
common law courts
It is an axiom of common law, so deeply rooted and well established as to need no specific authority, that ‘justice should not only be done but manifestly and undoubtedly ...
Coram Nobis
(Lat., “before us”) is a writ addressed to a court, calling attention to errors of fact that would vitiate a judgment already given. It has been abolished in federal practice by rule 60(b) of the ...
counsel
(noun, singular)In legal practice, traditionally a barrister who appears and speaks in court on behalf of a client. The barrister is the legal practitioner who settles (checks and finalises) ...
Court of Chancery
The original court of equity, presided over by the Lord Chancellor. By the Judicature Acts 1873–75 its jurisdiction was merged into that of the High Court, of which it became the Chancery Division.
Courts of Appeals
The U.S. Courts of Appeals are the middle level of the federal judicial system. They stand between the federal district courts at the bottom and the Supreme Court of the United States at the top.[...]
Disqualification of Justices
Since the earliest days of the High Court, it has been thought desirable that, so far as possible, all Justices should sit on important cases, and particularly desirable that they ...
