COURT OF COMMON PLEAS


Meaning of COURT OF COMMON PLEAS in English

Usage: often capitalized both Cs&P

1. : a former superior court of English common law at Westminster having jurisdiction over the ordinary civil suits between subject and subject and now forming part of the Court of King's Bench

2. : a court of intermediate rank in some American states usually having civil and criminal jurisdiction

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