... A
settlement made after marriage will entitle the representative of
the husband to such as estate in preference to the wife. ... A
court of equity will not interfere with the husband's right to
receive the income during the coverture, though the wife resist
the application."
- Judicial Procedure -
Defendants may not petition to remove a case to the Westminster
courts after a jury is selected because such has resulted in
unnecessary expense to plaintiffs and delay for defendants in
which they suborn perjury by obtaining witnesses to perjure
themselves.
In 1619, by the writ of quo warranto, a government office or
official could be made to explain by what right he performed
certain acts.
James I asserted an authority to determine the jurisdiction
between the various courts.
The Court of High Commission heard mostly matrimonial cases, but
also moral offences both of clergy and laity, and simony,
plurality, drunkenness, and other clerical irregularities.
The Star Chamber Court still was primarily directed against force
and fraud and defended the common people from over-mighty lords
and over-pliable Justices of the Peace, for instance by deterring
enclosure. It also enforced monopolies. However, there was a
growing tendency for King James, who sat on it, to abuse its power
with high fines. A lord accused with foul language by a huntsman
of following hounds of a chase too closely threatened to use his
horse whip on the huntsman's master when the huntsman threatened
to complain to his master.
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