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CAPITALIS JUSTICIARIUS AD PLACITA CORAM REGE TENENDA Definition & Legal Meaning

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Chief justice for holding pleas before the king. The title of the chief justice of the king’s bench, first assumed in the latter part of the reign of Henry III. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 91, 2N5.

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