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(III) The Supreme Court of Judicature.
(a) The court of Appeal.
Presided over by:
The Lord High Chancellor
The Lord Chief Justice of England (£ 8000)
The Master of the Rolls! (£ 6000)
The President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division (£ 5000)
5 Lord Justices (each £ 5000)
(b) The High Court of Justice.
(I Chancery Division?)
Presided over by:
7 Justices (each £ 5000)
(II King’s Bench Division?).
Presided over by:
Lord Chief Justice of England
15 Justices (each £ 5000)
(a) Court of Bankruptcey*, 1 Justice from amongst the 15 of the King's Bench Division
to which (a) belongs
(b) Companies Winding-Up Court, 2 Justices from amongst the 5 of the Chancery Division
(III The Probate, Divorce and Admiiralty Division?).
Presided over by:
The President (£ 5000)
1 Justice (£ 5000)
(() The Court of Criminal Appeeal“.
Presided over by:
Tlie Lord Chief Justice
8 Judges of the King’s Bench Division.
(d) City Courts
(I, Lord Mayor’s Court.)
Composed of:
The Lord Mayor of London
The Aldermen
Recorder (£ 4000)
! Before 1881 the Master of the Rolls was a Judge of the High Court; by 44 and 45 Vict.
c. 68 he became Judge of Appeal.
? There is no Court of Chancery now, its former jurisdicetion was transferred to the High
court of justice, of which it is now the most important division. It has cognisance of matters
relating to the administration of deceased persons‘ estates, dissolutions of partnerships, and taking
of partnership and other accounts, redemption and foreclosure of mortgages, trusts, specifio performance
of contracts for the sale of real estate, and of contracts for leases, partition of real estate,
wardship and care of the estates of infants. The old Court of chancery was a court of equity. There
has now been a fusion of law and equity that all divisions of the High Court of Justice are now
enabled to grant equitable relief in cases where formerly they could not have done so, and equitable
rules are in all cases to prevail where is any conflict between the rules of equity and law.
® This court not only holds sittings in London, but goes on circuit in different parts of
the country, these sittings are known as Assizes. The dates of the Assizes are about middle of
January, beginning of June, and middle of October. The autumn assizes are for criminal
business only.
* By the Bankruptcy act of 1883 jurisdietion in Bankruptcy was handed over to the
Supreme Court.
s5 These three divisions were fused into one court in 1875.
° Established by 7 Ed. VII, c. 23.
? The Lord Mayor’s Court is a police-court; the L.M. is ex officio a justice of the Peace;
as he is not a lawyer by training the chief legal work is really done by the Recorder and Serjeant.
Aldermen too are Justices of tlıe Peace ex officio.
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