Court of Queen's Bench

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Cultural formation Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland
After this she was summoned to the King's Bench with a warrant for her committal to the Tower of London. She mounted her own legal defence, and was released.
Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1 - 59; various pages.
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Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, 1994, pp. 183-75.
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Family and Intimate relationships Jane Squire
Her father, Robert Squire , from a royalist Yorkshire family, was a lawyer who owned property including valuable lead and alum mines. In 1702-4 he conducted a lawsuit over ownership of some lead mines with...
Family and Intimate relationships Ann Masterman Skinn
She, it appears, had petitioned first, alleging his impotence and cruelty.
Staves, Susan. “Matrimonial Discord in Fiction and in Court: The Case of Ann Masterman”. Fetter’d or Free?: British Women Novelists 1670-1815, edited by Cecilia Macheski and Mary Anne Schofield, Ohio University Press, 1986, pp. 169-85.
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He, however, secured his divorce, and within a week had added to it a civil divorce, adjudged by a jury at the Court of King's Bench
Occupation Edmund Curll
Edmund Curll was fined at the Court of King's Bench for his pornographic publications, and stood, according to his sentence, in the pillory.
The Monthly Chronicle. Aaron Ward.
politics Elinor James
Rosewell was tried at the Court of King's Bench for high treason. EJ visited him in prison, then went to the king (who according to her own account received her like a familiar friend). Rosewell's...

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20 April 1769: In Millar vs. Taylor the Court of King's...

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20 April 1769

In Millar vs. Taylor the Court of King's Bench confirmed the continuing existence of perpetual copyright: a decision overturned five years later by Donaldson vs. Becket.
Ross, Trevor. “Copyright and the Invention of Tradition”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
26
, No. 1, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1992, pp. 1-27.
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1800: The Court of King's Bench upheld a father's...

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1800

The Court of King's Bench upheld a father's custody rights in the case of a French emigré named De Manneville, whose English wife had left him, taking their only child.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
39 (1829): 191-2

6 March 1812: Daniel Isaac Eaton was tried in the Court...

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6 March 1812

Daniel Isaac Eaton was tried in the Court of King's Bench for publishing the final part of Thomas Paine 's Age of Reason.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2024, Numbered catalogues.
XIX

19 September 1830: The Weekly Dispatch printed an item about...

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19 September 1830

The Weekly Dispatch printed an item about the Duke of Brunswick (Friedrich Herzog von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) , which left a lasting mark on British libel laws.
Pallister, David. “Libel Legacy of Ousted Aristocrat Threatens Internet”. Guardian Unlimited, 27 Dec. 2005.

March 1860: John Anderson, a former slave who had fled...

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March 1860

John Anderson , a former slave who had fled from Missouri to Canada in 1853, was recognised and arrested at Windsor, Ontario, for killing a man during his escape. He applied for habeas corpus...

19 March 1891: The ruling in R. v Jackson established that...

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19 March 1891

The ruling in R. v Jackson established that it was illegal in Britain for a husband to beat or imprison his wife.
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
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Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
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