Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Court of the Lord High Steward

Hist. A court commissioned to try a peer indicted for treason or a felony. ( The Court met only if the House of Lords was not in session. The Lord High Steward sat as a judge and decided questions of law, and the peers decided facts only. The Court last sat in 1688.

Court of the Lord High Steward of the Universities

Hist. A court convened to try scholars, esp. Oxford or Cambridge students, who have been indicted for treason, felony, or mayhem.