King's Bench

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A division of the British High Court of Justice, with jurisdiction over a variety of legal cases. Used when the sovereign is a man.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Law) Formerly, the highest court of common law in England; -- so called because the king used to sit there in person. It consisted of a chief justice and four puisne, or junior, justices. During the reign of a queen it was called the Queen's Bench. Its jurisdiction was transferred by the judicature acts of 1873 and 1875 to the high court of justice created by that legislation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• proper noun The superior court in a number of jurisdictions in some parts of the Commonwealth.