— Also termed Court of the Steward and Marshal. Cf. PALACE COURT.
“Coke points out that all the Acts passed concerning this court restrained, or explained, but never added to its jurisdiction. He decided, in the Case of the Marshalsea, that it could not try the newer forms of action such as assumpsit and trover. Its once general jurisdiction had passed to the court of King’s Bench, and the attitude of that court to the more limited court of the Marshalsea made the court of the Marshalsea almost useless. There were complaints in the seventeenth century of the conduct of its officials; and, as it was obliged to follow the king in his progresses, it was a court extremely inconvenient to use.” 1 William Holdsworth, A History of English Law 208 (7th ed. 1956).
