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Queen's Bench
(redirected from Justice of the King's Bench)

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Queen's Bench n. 1) the highest court in Great Britain during the reign of a Queen, so that opinions are identified as a volume of Queen's Bench (QB). 2) in the United States, organizations of women lawyers, dating from when women were a small minority of practicing attorneys and needed to encourage each other, urge employment of women attorneys, protect against discrimination, and promote the cause of equality for women lawyers. Recent bar admissions now include close to 50 percent women.
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nbsp;in place in England at the time prevented most people from using guns to hunt game, "in 1752 the Chief Justice of the King's Bench reaffirmed that it was 'not to be imagined' that Parliament in [the Game Act] had intended 'to disarm all the people of England.
Second amendment solidified: the Department of Justice issued an ... by Williamsen, Kurt / The New American
Three Londoners--we know their names but nothing else about them--petitioned Lord Mansfield, chief justice of the King's Bench, to issue a writ of habeas corpus directing the captain of the Ann and Mary to produce Somerset and explain why he was being held.
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