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King's Bench

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King's Bench (kngz)
n. Abbr. KB
A division of the British superior court system that hears criminal and civil cases. Used when the sovereign is a man.
King's Bench
n
(Law) (when the sovereign is male) another name for Queen's Bench Division
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In his treatise on Queen-Gold, or Queen-pinmoney, an old King's Bench author, one William Prynne, thus discourseth: Ye tail is ye Queen's, that ye Queen's wardrobe may be supplied with ye whalebone.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Here, therefore, the justice behaved with some attention to the advice of his clerk; for, in fact, he had already had two informations exhibited against him in the King's Bench, and had no curiosity to try a third.
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The place to which Mr Cheeryble had directed him was a row of mean and not over-cleanly houses, situated within 'the Rules' of the King's Bench Prison, and not many hundred paces distant from the obelisk in St George's Fields.
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