Also, such a person
must be serjeant-at-law, reader, utter barrister, or an eight-year
fellow of one of the four houses of court, except in the Court of
Common Pleas.
Doctors of the civil law may practice in the church or Chancery
courts.
Justices shall tax inhabitants of the county for building gaols
throughout the nation, for imprisonment of felons, to be kept by
the sheriffs and repaired out of the Exchequer.
Piracy at sea or in river or creek or port are adjudicated in
counties because of the difficulty of obtaining witnesses from the
ship, who might be murdered or who are on other voyages on the
sea, for adjudication by the admiral.
Piracy and murder on ships is punishable by death only after
confession or proof by disinterested witnesses.
Land held by tenants in common may be partitioned by court order,
because some of these tenants have cut down all the trees to take
the wood and pulled down the houses to convert the material to
their own use.
Persons worth 800s. a year in goods shall be admitted in trials of
felons in corporate towns although they have no freehold of land.
Each justice of the high courts may employ one chaplain.
The Privy Council took the authority of the star chamber court,
which organized itself as a specialty court. Also, a specific
group of full-time councilors heard pleas of private suitors.
The bishops, nobility, and Justices of the Peace were commanded to
imprison clergy who taught papal authority.
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