The Supreme Court is composed of the judge of this court and two magistrates, appointed by precept from the governor; and its jurisdiction extends to all pleas where the matter in dispute exceeds £50 sterling.
The jurisdiction of this court is purely civil, and only extends to pleaswhere the sum at issue does not exceed £50; but no appeal lies from its decisions.
If one turns to thepleas of professional theologians there is no lack of answers to the question.
It was the product of their early education, impressed upon them by their parents, and all the "reasons" that are afterwards alleged in justification are only pleas why they should not be disturbed in their belief.
Then come County Courts (often styled Courts of Common Pleas or District Courts), having cognizance of actions involving greater sums, and to which appeals from judgments of justices of the peace can be taken.
Thus the Chancellor encroaches on the franchises of the town, to the damage of the King's profits on writs and issues on pleas of debts, &c.
The reports of thepleas in the Common Bench for 1293 include the following: "One A.
Boylan, presiding magistrate of the Court of Pleasand Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid, certify that James T.
Hinton, The above was certified to officially in the usual form by the clerk of the court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions.
The pleas for an "Absolute" or an "Unconditioned" are only used to buttress the older conception, and never till the older one has lost its force.
All these pleas are the mere platitudes of a religious apologetic trying to harmonise a primitive theory of things with a larger knowledge and a more developed moral sense.
Lobera defended himself, meanwhile protesting that he had had no part in the treachery; and his evidently honest pleas moved a French officer to intervene in his behalf and to disarm Sores.
A vacancy occurring in the office of solicitor to prosecute the pleas of the State in that riding, about this time, he was introduced to public notice by the temporary appointment from the judge, and made one circuit in that capacity.
Pleas Collier bought him from her and took him to Louisiana.
Old man Pleas Collier, our mean mars, called my daddy out and then he said, 'All you come out here.
This wholesome change, too, was assisted by Rousseau's eloquent pleas for simplicity and the life natural.
On the contrary, some of the most strenuous pleas for the necessity of a Second Chamber are to be found precisely in the speeches of Gambetta (e.
The embassy and consulate transmitted the "Y" cables through their offices to England and America and co-operated with urgent pleas for aid at times when such pleas were essential to the adoption of policies to better the "Y" service.
Lord Somers) the borough in fee farm with its mills, tolls, fines and pleas, pleas of the crown excepted.
Thus Locke's pleas for religious toleration resolve at last into his philosophical view of the foundation and limits of human knowledge.
Edward the Black Prince secured to the burgesses in 1355 immunity from pleas outside their franchise for trespass done within the borough.
Pleas of the Crown; or a Methodical Summary of the Principal Matters relating to the subject, 1678.
The eldest daughter, Mary, was married in 1762, to Richard Cranch, afterwards Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Massachusetts.
At four in the morning of the eighteenth Lefebvre received orders to fall on the Austrian left, while flying messengers followed each other in quick succession to spur on Masséna with urgent pleas of immediate necessity.
Nevertheless, the daring functionary persistently disobeyed, and by the month of March, 1808, the air of Paris was thick with embittered and ardentpleas on one side or the other.
But his pleas for compromise fell in the North on dull ears, and his pleas for concessions to the South were looked on as treason.
Their trial had been put off on various pleastill the new organization was complete.
Camden, Lord, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas who declared general warrants illegal and released Wilkes in 1763.
He grudged to the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas even that measure of liberty which the most absolute of the Bourbons allowed to the Parliaments of France.
If so, be pleas tell me where I can by one and what it will cost me.
You will pleas write to me as I think if there are sutch a thing maid I could get one in your country.
He was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas in 1481.
Lady, if your fader wull aggrey therto I hold me right wele pleasyd; for I wuld be right clad that she shuld do her servyse be for any other, if she cowde do that shuld pleas my ladyes good grace.
The Chief Justice of the Common Pleaswas sworn in as Privy Councillor.
The Lord President, Lord Chief Baron, and Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas present.
Chief Justices of the King's Bench and Common Pleas had forty pounds, and one of the judges of Common Pleas had fifty-five marks.
Note: For instance, in 1176, William fitz Ralf, Bertram de Verdun, and William Basset hear pleas in Curia Regis touching Bucks.
Footnote 4: Prof Maitland informs me that since the appearance of his Select Pleas in Manorial Courts, he has discovered the earlier occurrence of the word 'leet' (see p.
Footnote 3: Maitland's Select Pleasof the Crown, I.
Pleas were heard before him at Eling on this occasion (Rot.
Having now traced the royal iter, of which the pleas are distinguished on the Pipe-Rolls as held 'in curia regis', I turn to the circuits of the judges.
Footnote 6: Prof Maitland has explained that this presence was formal (Select Pleas of the Crown, I.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
