The life of ... Sir John Holt ... With a table of references to all his lordship's arguments and resolutions in the several volumes of reports ... / By a gentlemen of the Inner-Temple [i.e. John Rayner].

  • John Holt
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1764
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Credit: The life of ... Sir John Holt ... With a table of references to all his lordship's arguments and resolutions in the several volumes of reports ... / By a gentlemen of the Inner-Temple [i.e. John Rayner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ft his Majeity’s moll honourable Privy-Council. Gazette, N°. 6363* ... Sir Rob. Raymond Teeming to remark it as fomething extraordinary that he Ihould be continued, one of the Commiftioners of the Great Seal, after his being created Chief Juftice of the King's-Bench, it was thought proper to give the Readers feme Xnftances of the like Kind. Sir John Knenoet, Knight, was Chief Juftice of the Kings-Bench, and Chancellor together, in Edward the third's Time. Spelm, Gloff. P. in, 342. Dngd. Chron. Ser. P. 48, 50. Fortefc. Rep. P. 382, 383. Chron. Juridicial. P. I01, 105. Dy. P. 139. in Marg. Co. Rep. P. 58. Humphry Star hie held the Places of Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Juftice of the Common Pleas, both together, in the Reign of Henry the fenjenth. Spelm. Gloff. P. 344- Dugd. Chron. Ser. P. 74. Chron. Juridicial. P. 141. Fortefc. Rep. P. 382. Dy. P. 259. 'Year-Book, 1 Hen. 7. P. 10. pi. 13. Sir Richard Brooke, Knight, was both Chief Baron of the Ex¬ chequer, and a Jultice of the Common Pleas at the fame Time, to Henry the eighth, Spelm. Gtoff. P. 344. Dugd. Chron. Ser. P. 80. Chron. Juridicial. P. 153, 135. Fortefc. Rep. P. 382. Six James Dyer, Knight, was made Judge of the King's-Rench, in Eafter Term, 4 & 5 Phil. & Mar. being then a Judge of the Common Pleas ; and the Queftion was, whether by the Acceptance of this laffc Patent, the Force and Effedt of the former was not ceas’d ? And held by the Majority of the Judges, it was gone, becaufe an inferior Authority is taken away and funk by the fu- perior Authority, as a Benefice becomes void by the Incumbent’s taking a Bifhoprick, [Latch. Rep. P. 32.] fo the Authority of the King's-Bench drowns all other inferior Authority ; befides, it is ab- furd and impertinent for a Man to reverfe his own Judgment, as he fhould do in this Cafe, if a Writ of Error was brought in the King s-Bench of a Judgment in the Common Pleas. Dy. P. 158 b. P. I59. a. Fortefc. Rep. P. 382. Dugd. Chron. Ser. P. 90. Chron. Juridicial. P. 163. Sax Edward Saunders, Knight, Chief Joffice of England, in the fame Reign, was made fo from a judge of the Common Pleas, but did not furrender his Patent, yet it was a Surrender in Law, otherwife he would be intitled to the Fees of both Places. Dy, P. 139. Fortefc. Rep. P. 383. Spelm. Gloff. P. 343* Dugd. Chron o Ser. P. 90. Chron. Juridicial. P. 163. Sir Edward Littleton, Chief juftice of the Common Bench, to Charles thQ 'firfi, was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and yet, notwithftanding he continued Chief juftice of the Common Bench, and the faid Lord Keeper fat in the Common Bench, as Chief'' juftice there, not in his Robes, but in his long Gown and Ha*, B • as