KB 231857-1881Court of King's Bench, Crown Side, and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division: Special Cases
Special cases referred to King's Bench by the judge and counsel for both parties in an inferior court, particularly assizes or quarter sessions, for a decision on a particular difficult point of law, which decided the outcome of the trial.
They include appeals from general and quarter sessions under the Quarter Sessions Procedure Act 1849, and against decisions by individual justices of the peace under the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1857.
Each item consists of the special case with related documents, sometimes including maps, attached. They do not carry the result of the deliberations by the court.
Chronological calendars from 1869 to 1881 are in IND 1/6713