In all probability the successors of Major Lawrence Smith were also authorized to execute martial law and hear and determine all questions, as a county court might do, until the town was chartered in 1727 and placed in the hands of trustees.
The Executive ought to appoint all persons recommended by "a County Court, taken as a whole.
For three hours Holmes declaimed "the merest stuff that was ever uttered in a county court.
The County Court is a court incident to the jurisdiction of the sheriff.
Reeve says: "The great court for civil business was the county court; held once every four weeks.
Here is a justice of the peace in South Carolina or Georgia, or a county court, or a circuit court, that is called upon to execute this law.
He was subsequently an editor, Judge of a County Court, and Presidential Elector.
Any barrister of seven years' standing is eligible to become a County Court judge, and appointments have often been obtained by men quite devoid of any practical legal knowledge.
But that only thoroughly reliable men should be appointed as County Court judges is a sine qua non.
There is in every state at least one court, and in most of the states there are two or more courts of higher grade than a county court.
A county court is held monthly in each county, by not less than three, nor more than five justices of the peace, except when the law requires a greater number.
A county court is held by a county judge elected for four years, who is also surrogate, called in other states, judge of probate.
The court next higher than a justice's court, is a court held in each county, generally called a county court, or court of common pleas.
All through the first quarter of the century, and for a longer time, county court day in Kentucky was, at least in many parts of the State, the occasion for holding athletic games.
The party aggrieved may appeal from a Justice Court to a County Court; from County or Supreme Courts to Special Term; from Special Term to General Term; from General Term to Court Of Appeals.
What jury decides causes tried either in the Sessions or County Court?
Fairfax County's representatives in the convention voted for retaining the county court, arguing that the monthly sessions had significant social values--an "heirloom of great psychological importance.
County Court met in the Alexandria Town House, located next door, which also housed the Hustings Court.
As early as 1618, Governor Sir George Yeardley established the prototype of the County Court in his order stating that "A County Court be held in convenient places, to sit monthly, and to hear civil and criminal cases.
Among its public buildings are the county court-house and the Hearst free public library (1898).
An appeal also lies as a general rule to the High Court from the judgment of a county court or of any inferior tribunal having civil jurisdiction.
Bodmin is a municipal borough, market, and union town, and head of a county court district.
The office was always elective, the appointment being made by the freeholders of the county assembled in county court.
The rule is also subject to specific provision empowering the courts to limit the costs to be adjudged against the unsuccessful party in proceedings in the High Court, which could and should have been instituted in a county court, e.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "county court" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
