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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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Court of Consience			After a brief but useful historical survey there is an examination of surviving sources: manorial records, property and tax records, surveys, Chancery and Exchequer records, other state records, military and common law records, surviving papers from civil litigation (Chancery, Star Chamber, Court of Requests et al. Medieval Genealogy: How to Find Your Medieval Ancestors by Contemporary Review 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			court of assize court of assize and nisi prius Court of audience Court of cassation court of chancery Court of chivalry court of claims court of common pleas Court of Conscience Court of Consience Court of delegates court of domestic relations Court of Equity Court of Exchequer court of first instance Court of honor court of honour court of inquiry court of justice Court of Justiciary court of law Court of Marshalsea Court of Peculiars court of record Court of regard Court of Requests Court of Saint James's Court of Session Court of St James's Court of St. James court order Court party court plaster court reporter court roll Court rolls court shoe court tennis court tomb Court-baron court-bouillon Court-craft Court-cupboard court-leet court-martial court-ordered Court-plaster Courtbred Courtelle courteous courteously			Court of last resort Court of last resort Court of last resort Court of last resort court of law court of law court of law court of law court of law Court of Limited Jurisdiction Court of Marshalsea Court Of Military Appeals Court of Military Order Court of Ordinary Court of Ordinary Court of Ordinary Court of Ordinary Court of Peculiars Court of Peculiars Court of Probate Court of Protection Court of Public Opinion Court of Quarter Sessions Court of Quarter Sessions Court of Quarter Sessions Court of Queen's Bench Court of Queen's Bench court of record court of record Court of regard Court of Requests Court of Restitution Appeals court of review Court of Saint James's Court of Session Court of Special Appeals Court of St Court of St James's Court of St. James Court of St. James's Court of Star Chamber Court of Star Chamber Court of Star Chamber Court of Tax Appeals Court of Teinds Court of the Arches Court of the Star Chamber Court of the Star Chamber Court of the Star Chamber Court of Versailles Court of Versailles Court officer Court officer Court officer court official Court opinion Court opinion Court opinion Court opinion Court opinion court order

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