COURT-HAND
Categories: Criminal Law
Definition (1910 Edition)
ed of such of the judges of the superior courts of Westminster as were able to attend, for the consideration of questions of law reserved by any judge in a court of oyer and terminer, gaol delivery, or quarter sessions, before which a prisoner had been found guilty by verdict. Such question is stated in the form of a special case. Mozley & Whiteley; 4 Steph. Comm. 442. °
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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