civil court Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)
... court A court exercising jurisdiction over civil rather than criminal cases. In England the principal civil courts of first instance are the county courts and the High Court . Magistrates’ courts have limited civil jurisdiction, mainly confined to family and matrimonial...
civil court Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law (10 ed.)
... court A court exercising jurisdiction over civil rather than criminal cases. In England the principal civil courts of first instance are the county courts and the High Court . Magistrates’ courts have limited civil jurisdiction, mainly confined to family and matrimonial...
Civil honours awarded to High Court Justices Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia
... honours awarded to High Court Justices Aickin, Sir Keith Arthur KBE ( 1976 ), QC ( 1957 ) Barton, Sir Edmund GCMG ( 1902 ), QC ( 1889 ) Barwick, Sir Garfield Edward John PC ( 1964 ), AK ( 1981 ), GCMG ( 1965 ), Kt ( 1953 ), KC ( 1941 ) Brennan, Sir Francis Gerard AC ( 1988 ), KBE ( 1981 ), QC ( 1965 ) Callinan, Ian David QC ( 1978 ) Dawson, Sir Daryl Michael AC ( 1988 ), KBE ( 1982 ), CB ( 1980 ), QC ( 1971 ) Deane, Sir William Patrick AC ( 1988 ), KBE ( 1982 ), QC ( 1966 ) Dixon, Sir Owen OM ( 1963 ), PC ( 1951 ), GCMG ( 1954 ), KCMG ( 1941 ), KC ( 1922 )...
civil court
CIVIL COURTS Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2 ed.)
...that Jews bring their disputes only before their own courts and harshly condemned those having recourse to civil courts even by mutual agreement. The only generally recognized exception permitted by the Shulḥan ʿArukh ( Ḥoshen Mishpat 26.1) was if the defendant failed to appear before the Jewish court ( beit din ) after three successive summonses, in which case the beit din issued permission to the plaintiff to apply to the civil authorities. The scope of the prohibition against litigating in civil courts has been subject to a considerable amount of...
Civil honours awarded to High Court Justices
Central Government, Courts, and Taxation Quick reference
R. W. Hoyle
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...perjury—but also such varied civil matters as breach of contract, debt, defamation, and so on. A proportion of the cases of riot which came before it were actually about title, although, in theory, real property cases were barred to the court, a rule which was restated in 1552 and then adhered to. The majority of cases were between parties; relatively few were inspired by the state, but a handful of cases from the 1630s have coloured the whole history of the court. It was abolished in 1642 as an abuse of power; the Court of Requests and the Councils in...
Law Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...ideal as open ‘law shops’ for the adjudication of a wide range of private, interpersonal disputes. Although they remained accessible in theory via the nisi prius arrangement of hearing civil suits at the provincial assizes, all the common law tribunals and the court of Chancery suffered a massive loss of civil business which reduced them to a nadir around mid-century. While there were various possible reasons for the decline, it is clear that rising legal and clerical fees and the connected problem of labyrinthine process were major deterrents against going...
Local Government Quick reference
R. W. Hoyle
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...was in effect the lord's manorial court. A corporate town invariably had a court presided over by its own officials and possibly courts held for individual wards. The essential business of both manorial and borough courts was the prosecution of felonies and trespass, the settlement of civil disputes, the regulation of the lands of the manor (especially where they were copyhold ), and control over commons and grazing. But, like the hundred courts , some of their functions were clearly administrative: the regulation of markets (including weights and...
Chronology of a Struggle for Equal Rights Reference library
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...of the first wife and children is ensured. The last two procedures must be a standard. The court need not wait for an application by the wife before giving the order but instead dispense with it as a matter of justice. From a series of press releases, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1990–2003. Notes 1. Note: In the 1990 case of Aishah Abdul Rauf vs Wan Mohd Yusuf Wan Othman, the Syariah Appeal Court of Selangor unanimously overturned the lower court's decision to permit Wan Yusuf to take a second wife—stating that all conditions for polygamy...
African‐Caribbean Genealogy Quick reference
Guy Grannum
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...Most West Indian wills and grants of administrations were proved in local courts and may survive locally. Owners who died with estates in England or Wales had their wills proved until 1857 by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury ( PCC ), the records of which are held by TNA. In 1858 the PCC's role in probate administration was abolished and the responsibility went to the Principal Probate Registry. People with estates in Scotland had their wills proved in Scottish courts; these are available online. Newspapers can contain a wide variety of social and...
Tracing a Family Tree: Getting Started Quick reference
David Hey
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...; Genealogists, Society of . http://genuki.org.uk ENUKI: family history records and societies. http://www.cyndislist.com Cyndi's list of genealogy sites. http://www.ancestry.co.uk Ancestry civil registration records (subscription). http://www.freebmd.org.uk Find My Past civil registration records (subscription). http://www.freebmd.org.uk FreeBMD civil registration records. David...
Shari‘a: The Codification of Islamic Law Reference library
Muhammad Sa‘id Al-‘Ashmawi
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...assembly of the Supreme Court of Cassation its report stated: “If our Constitution stipulated that the shari‘a is the principal source of legislation, that does not imply that we should reject our Civil Code of 1948 whose elaboration lasted over twenty years and whose solutions, resulting from deep study, are derived in large part from norms of the shari‘a . This is pointed out in the explanatory memorandum which, moreover, makes explicit the foundation in Islamic jurisprudence of a number of these dispositions.” Thus that assembly, as true representative...
South Asian Genealogy Quick reference
Abi Husainy
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...part of the civil record, they can have certificates prepared later that are witnessed by magistrates, a procedure in accordance with the Christian Marriage Act 1892 . With the exception of Azad Kashmir, all zones of Pakistan make divorce subject to forms of arbitration. In Azad Kashmir the ‘bare talaq ’, a form of divorce in which a husband can sever a relationship with a triple declaration of the phrase ‘I divorce thee’, still has practitioners. The oral quality of the bare talaq decree may make a paper trail difficult to find. Civil courts can grant...
The Problem of ‘Ulama’ Reference library
Alhaji Adeleke Dirisu Ajijola
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...Islamic civil law. Islamic civil law sets forth and places at man's disposal a most effective and potent means of achieving the purpose of life. It is the best of all God's numberless bounties bestowed upon man; it is indispensable for the beneficent growth of man in the epoch now unfolding before him. . . . But, the real question is not whether Islamic civil law should be applied or not, which all Muslims accept, but whether Nigeria should continue to apply classical juristic work without any modification or whether Islamic civil law in...
Henry IV Part 1 Reference library
Michael Dobson and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...records of performances, especially at court, are complicated by the different titles under which both 1 Henry IV and its immediate sequel seem to have gone: it was certainly acted before the Flemish ambassador in 1600 , and the plays referred to as The Hotspur and Sir John Falstaff at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth in 1612–13 were probably the two Henry IV plays. The two were combined in the Dering manuscript for a private, amateur performance in around 1623 , and Part 1 was performed at court in 1625 (as The First Part of Sir John...
Family and Society Quick reference
Ralph Houlbrooke
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...power in the 1640s only to see their own ranks fragment, and to face a task of imposing moral discipline made all the more difficult by the collapse of the church courts. Adultery became a capital offence in 1650 , but the ordinance remained little more than a dead letter. Civil marriage, introduced in 1653 , lasted only until the Restoration . But Parliament's victory in the Civil War brought, in 1646 , one of the most fundamental changes ever to take place in the family life of the upper classes, the abolition of feudal wardship . Some of its...
Twelfth Night Reference library
Michael Dobson and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...bitter-sweet drama of social and sexual identity—informs Twelfth Night ’s post-Restoration stage history. The play was evidently popular down to the Civil War, as Digges ’s poem suggests: a court performance is recorded in 1622 as ‘Malvolio’ (a title by which Charles I would also call the play, in a note on the contents page of his copy of the Folio). Doubtless remembering the play’s earlier success in court circles, Davenant revived it in the early 1660s, the role of Viola now transformed by the arrival of professional actresses into a breeches part,...
Religion Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...‘establish’—that is make official and supported by the civil power—the religion of the majority of his subjects; the two powers would then enter upon a compact defining the precise obligations of each. The Church of England, which assuredly claimed the allegiance of most English men and women, was in theory the ecclesiastical parallel to civil society. Under the governance of the king, there were ecclesiastical and civil legislatures, ecclesiastical and civil laws and taxes, ecclesiastical and civil courts, and, accordingly, a subject who rejected the Church...
