Prerogative Court Research Articles

The Irish courts of law, 1801–1914

At the beginning of the nineteenth century there were six superior courts in Ireland—chancery, the three common law courts (king’s bench, common pleas and exchequer), the admiralty court and the prerogative court (an ecclesiastical court with jurisdiction over testamentary matters).Four of these courts were of medieval origin. The exchequer was probably in existence before the close of the twelfth century, the Irish chancery was founded early in the thirteenth century, the first Irish chancellor being appointed in 1244, and the antecedents of the courts of king’s bench and common pleas are to be found in the thirteenth century. The other two courts were comparatively modern. The court of prerogative and faculties based its rights to exercise jurisdiction on two sixteenth century acts and two seventeenth century patents, one of James I and one of Charles I. And though admiralty jurisdiction had been exercised in Ireland from medieval times, the Irish court of admiralty had been created by statute in 1784. From the court of chancery and the three common law courts there was an appeal to the court of error (known as the court of exchequer chamber) composed of the judges of the three common law courts, and in 1857 it was enacted that the court of exchequer chamber when hearing an appeal should consist of the judges of the two courts from which the appeal did not arise. From the admiralty court and from the prerogative court there was an appeal to delegates in chancery.

Sir Godfrey Copley, F.R.S., 1653-1709 Some Tercentenary Glimpses through Letters to his Friends

The name of Sir Godfrey Copley is closely associated with the Royal Society because in his will dated 14 October 1704, and proved in the Prerogative Court on 11 April 1709, he bequeathed one hundred pounds in trust to the Society Tor improving natural knowledge, to be laid out in experiments, or otherwise, for the benefit thereof, as they shall direct and appoint’. The interest was given to J. T. Desaguliers, Curator of the Society, for various experiments made before the Society, and not until 1736 did the Council decide to convert the value of the legacy into a medal which was to be awarded ‘to the author of the most important scientific discovery, or contribution to science, by experiment or otherwise’.

Land Office and Prerogative Court Records of Colonial Maryland

Land Office and Prerogative Court Records of Colonial Maryland

Land Office and Prerogative Court Records of Colonial Maryland. Publications of the Hall of Records Commission.

Land Office and Prerogative Court Records of Colonial Maryland. Publications of the Hall of Records Commission.

A Calendar of Suffolk Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, A.D. 1383-1604

A Calendar of Suffolk Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, A.D. 1383-1604

Cornish Wills, Prerogative Court of Canterbury

Cornish Wills, Prerogative Court of Canterbury

Prerogative court of Canterbury will registers

Journal Article Prerogative court of Canterbury will registers Get access S. M. S. M. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s10-IV, Issue 86, 19 August 1905, Page 155, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s10-IV.86.155a Published: 19 August 1905

Prerogative court of canterbury will registers

Prerogative court of canterbury will registers

Prerogative Court of New Jersey. Carroll v. Bonhan

Prerogative Court of New Jersey. Carroll v. Bonhan

Prerogative Court of New Jersey. Gans v. Dabergott

Prerogative Court of New Jersey. Gans v. Dabergott

Prerogative Court of New Jersey. John B. Ellison et al. v. I. H. Lindsley

Prerogative Court of New Jersey. John B. Ellison et al. v. I. H. Lindsley

Prerogative court of canterbury

Prerogative court of canterbury

XX.—On the Mantle and the Ring of Widowhood

Sir Harris Nicolas printed in the Testamenta Vetusta an Abstract of the Will of the Lady Alice West of Hinton Marcel, widow of Sir Thomas West, dated in 1395, and proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

In the Prerogative Court. Norton and Others vs. Bazett

In the Prerogative Court. Norton and Others vs. Bazett