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Victorian London - Legal System - Courts - Court of Common Pleas
The Court of Common Pleas, is so called, because in that court are debated the usual or common pleas between subject and subject, and all civil causes whatsoever; the sittings of this Court are also held occasionally, out of term, in the city.
Mogg's New Picture of London and Visitor's Guide to it Sights, 1844