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Court of Requests

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A local tribunal, sometimes called Court of Consience, founded by act of Parliament to facilitate the recovery of small debts from any inhabitant or trader in the district defined by the act; - now mostly abolished
A court of equity for the relief of such persons as addressed the sovereign by supplication; - now abolished. It was inferior to the Court of Chancery.
- Brande & C.

See also: Request Request



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Of course there were litigants and there were litigants: Stretton devotes a chapter to unmarried women and widows and another to married women in the Court of Requests.
Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England by Schmidt, Albert J. / Journal of Social History
Despite his rather expansive title, Tim Stretton's book focuses on the minor Court of Requests, whose primary purpose was to provide inexpensive equitable relief to the poor; however, for Stretron's purposes, one third of the cases he surveys involved a female plaintiff or defendant.
Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England by FORTIER, MARK / Renaissance Quarterly
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