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Courts of the County Palatine of Durham
The palatine courts of Durham were a set of courts that exercised jurisdiction within the County Palatine of Durham. The bishop purchased the wapentake of Sadberge in 1189, and Sadberge's initially separate institutions were eventually merged with those of the County Palatine.
The Bishop of Durham was the supreme judge of all the courts of Durham, both ecclesiastical and temporal, by virtue of the privileges of his palatinate.
The Court of Pleas probably developed from the free court of the Bishop of Durham. There was also a free court of the Prior of Durham.
This court was abolished by the Courts Act 1971.
This court was abolished by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873.
The Assizes for the county of Durham were held twice a year, about the first week in August and last in February. Two Judges attended in summer, but only one in winter. The assizes sat at the Shire Hall (also known as the County House) beside Palace Green until 1811, when they moved to the new courthouse at the head of Old Elvet. Mary Ann Cotton was tried at the Durham Assizes.
The judges of assize who sat in a county palatine, formerly sat by virtue of a special commission from the owner of the franchise, and under the seal thereof, and not by the usual commission under the Great Seal of England (3 Com 79) Section 99 of Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873 provided that "From and after the commencement of this Act, the Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Durham shall respectively cease to be Counties Palatine, so far as respects the issue of Commissions of Assize, or other like Commissions, but not further or otherwise; and all such Commissions may be issued for the trial of all causes and matters within such counties respectively in the same manner in all respects as in any other counties of England and Wales."
This court was abolished by section 2 of the Durham (County Palatine) Act 1836.
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Courts of the County Palatine of Durham
The palatine courts of Durham were a set of courts that exercised jurisdiction within the County Palatine of Durham. The bishop purchased the wapentake of Sadberge in 1189, and Sadberge's initially separate institutions were eventually merged with those of the County Palatine.
The Bishop of Durham was the supreme judge of all the courts of Durham, both ecclesiastical and temporal, by virtue of the privileges of his palatinate.
The Court of Pleas probably developed from the free court of the Bishop of Durham. There was also a free court of the Prior of Durham.
This court was abolished by the Courts Act 1971.
This court was abolished by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873.
The Assizes for the county of Durham were held twice a year, about the first week in August and last in February. Two Judges attended in summer, but only one in winter. The assizes sat at the Shire Hall (also known as the County House) beside Palace Green until 1811, when they moved to the new courthouse at the head of Old Elvet. Mary Ann Cotton was tried at the Durham Assizes.
The judges of assize who sat in a county palatine, formerly sat by virtue of a special commission from the owner of the franchise, and under the seal thereof, and not by the usual commission under the Great Seal of England (3 Com 79) Section 99 of Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873 provided that "From and after the commencement of this Act, the Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Durham shall respectively cease to be Counties Palatine, so far as respects the issue of Commissions of Assize, or other like Commissions, but not further or otherwise; and all such Commissions may be issued for the trial of all causes and matters within such counties respectively in the same manner in all respects as in any other counties of England and Wales."
This court was abolished by section 2 of the Durham (County Palatine) Act 1836.