chief justice of the common pleas

Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Hist. Formerly, the presiding judge in the Court of Common Pleas. • The Judicature Act of 1875 reduced the Court of Common Pleas to the Common Pleas Division. In 1881 the last Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Lord Coleridge, was appointed Lord Chief Justice of England, merging the Common Pleas Division and the Queen’s Bench Division. The Lord Chief Justice of England now exercises the powers formerly belonging to the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Cf. LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND.

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译者David，毕业于亚洲顶尖的高级翻译学院，擅长翻译各种与复杂商业诉讼相关的法律文件。