The last sitting of a court of chivalry for criminal business in England was in 1631; and as a civil court (for cases of honour and questions of precedence) it gradually decayed through want of power to enforce its decisions.

A settlement was reached during the first sitting of the court.

He was placed at the head of the judges who were to try the king, and attended the preliminary sitting of the court.

Corey refused to plead (guilty or not guilty), was committed to jail and subsequently arraigned at the September sitting of the court.

The sitting of the court had occupied most of the morning and the last of the people who had come to attend it were now moving off.

The first sittings of the court was preceded by a parade of Field in his ceremonial robes with all of the settlement's magistrates.

The Chief Justice is responsible for the judicial functions of the court, including direction over sittings of the court and the assignment of judicial duties.

While he was master of the rolls the customary evening sittings of the court were abandoned, and on 22 June 1829 the practice of sitting in the daytime began.

The first sitting of the court purported to be in 1798 when Governor Hunter convened the latter court to deal with charges of mutiny and attempted piracy.

The Justices of the Supreme Court were authorized to make rules and regulations for the use of the Law Library during the sitting of the court.

On 6 January he attended the first of the sessions of the high court of justice preparatory to the trial, and then attended most sittings of the court.

The Senior Children's Magistrate administers the court, arranges sittings of the Court, and convenes meetings of Children's Magistrates.

As well as possible'; the fact being, as we have already hinted, that there was nothing whatever to go on, either well or ill, until the sitting of the court on the following morning.

Following a three-week adjournment made necessary by the advancing King's Army, the second sitting of the court resulted in 68 other "condemnations"; though reports say - "mass executions of sixty or seventy witches".

In 1648 he was appointed one of the commissioners for the trial of the king, attended two sittings of the court, and was present also when sentence was pronounced, and signed the death-warrant.

Whilst Bathurst agreed that ex-convicts should not practise, he also took the view that the absence of the sittings of the court was more serious an issue that admitting ex-convicts, and that the court should actually sit.

There was much delay in holding the first sitting of the court, which was eventually fixed for 1 May 1815, and even then there were repeated adjournments because Bent refused to allow anyone who had been transported to be allowed to practice as an attorney.

At sittings of the court, the justices usually appear in black silk robes but they wear their ceremonial robes of bright scarlet trimmed with Canadian white mink in court on special occasions and in the Senate at the opening of each new session of parliament.