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Queen's Bench, Court of The ... is only accessible in Term time, and during the sittings after Term.

The Court of Queen's Bench is the supreme court of Common Law, to determine pleas between the Crown and the subject, and the rights of property; it also corrects the errors of the Judges and Justices of England in their judgment and proceedings, not only in pleas of the Crown, but in all pleas, real, personal and mixed, save only pleas in the Exchequer. This court holds its sittings for the trial of causes out of term, occasionally in Guildhall Yard.

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