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Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas, was created Baron Trevor, of
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Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer for the Province, travells, with a Pair of wretched old jades of Horses, in
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Judge of Common Pleas, observed that he himself had a good chance of the post.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey
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Among the oldest members who were in full practice when Judge Sherman went there, were Jacob Parker, afterwards Judge of the Common Pleas, Andrew
Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Maurice [Unknown role] Joblin
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Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas; and Plomer, who, near twenty years later, successfully conducted in the same high court the defence of
The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty
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History and Practice of the Common Pleas, by a late Learned Hand, 8vo.
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Its crowning audacity, however, was the substitution of a superintendent of public works for street commissioner, to be appointed by the mayor for a term of four years, and to be removable only after an impeachment trial, in which the entire six judges of the Common Pleas
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
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The salaries of the judges in the time of Henry IV. were as follows: -- The chief baron, and other barons, had 40 marks per annum; the chief of the King's Bench, and of the Common Pleas, 40l. per annum; the other justices, in either court, 40 marks.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827 Various
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The above was certified to officially in the usual form by the clerk of the court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions.
The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. Lunsford Lane
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WILLIAM BRENCHESLEY was lord of the manor of Benenden, near Dartford, and a justice of the Common Pleas (in Henry IV's time).
Chaucer's Official Life James Root Hulbert 1926
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