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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A division of the British High Court of Justice, with jurisdiction over a variety of legal cases. Used when the sovereign is a woman.
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Examples
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Star & Kenedy, tried before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn in the court of Queen's Bench, February 1869 : containing the speeches of counsel on both sides, and the evidence of the various witnesses 1869
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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_ A commodious harbour, where people lie at anchor in perfect security, as _The Queen's Bench, -- The Fleet_, the sight of which is
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 Various
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"Mistress _Joyce_, the Queen's Bench lost an eloquent advocate in you."
Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Queen's Bench would have lost one of its most eloquent practitioners.
The Paris Sketch Book William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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The Crown had asked that Butterfield serve as much as 18 months in jail, but a Queen's Bench judge sentenced him to half that much time.
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District, and Queen's Bench, through judges without a wig and gown to judges in full paraphernalia, and barristers and attorneys without end, before he encounters a Master in Chancery.
Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 Richard Henry Bonnycastle 1819
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The judges - Sir Igor Judge, the lord chief justice; Lord Neuberger, the master of the rolls; and Sir Anthony May, president of the Queen's Bench - also stressed the importance of the media in supporting the principle of open justice in a case which, they said, raised issues of "fundamental importance", of "democratic accountability and … the rule of law itself".
The Guardian World News Richard Norton-Taylor 2010
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The judges - Sir Igor Judge, the lord chief justice; Lord Neuberger, the master of the rolls; and Sir Anthony May, president of the Queen's Bench - also stressed the importance of the media in supporting the principle of open justice in a case which, they said, raised issues of "fundamental importance", of "democratic accountability and … the rule of law itself".
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The judges - Sir Igor Judge, the lord chief justice; Lord Neuberger, the master of the rolls; and Sir Anthony May, president of the Queen's Bench - also stressed the importance of the media in supporting the principle of open justice in a case which, they said, raised issues of "fundamental importance", of "democratic accountability and … the rule of law itself".
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The judges - Sir Igor Judge, the lord chief justice; Lord Neuberger, the master of the rolls; and Sir Anthony May, president of the Queen's Bench - also stressed the importance of the media in supporting the principle of open justice in a case which, they said, raised issues of "fundamental importance", of "democratic accountability and … the rule of law itself".
The Guardian World News Richard Norton-Taylor 2010
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