Sentence examples for common pleas from inspiring English sources

The Court of Common Pleas, or Common Bench, was a common law court in the English legal system that covered "common pleas"; actions between subject and subject, which did not concern the king.

By the 13th century, three central courts Exchequer, Common Pleas, and King's Bench applied the common law.

Sandusky threatened the reported victim and his family if either told anyone about the abuse, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.

Resigned common pleas judgeship 1869: "I was making too great a pecuniary sacrifice".

Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Minehart has asked the jury to continue deliberating to try to reach a unanimous verdict.

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell also cleared Mr Brelo of the lesser count of felonious assault.

As such, the Common Pleas "was the court which more than any other shaped the medieval common law".

US$40 million in city spending was found to be unaccounted for, and the president judge of the Court of Common pleas had been tampering with court cases.

Gradually, the curia split into two distinct branches, the coram rege (King's Bench) and de banco (Common Bench, or Common Pleas).

Her mother wrote "The Court of Common Pleas".

Judge Roger F. Gordon, of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, officiated.