Dictionary Search: "Queen" - Pakistan Law Portal

Court of Queen's Bench

See QUEEN'S BENCH.

Marshal of the Queen's Bench

Hist. A custodial officer of the Queen's Bench prison. o The position was abolished by the Queen's Prison Act of 1842 (St. 5 & 6 Vict., ch. 22).

Queen

1. A woman who possesses, in her own right, the sovereignty and royal power in a monarchy. ( Among the more famous English queens are Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, and Queen Elizabeth 11. -Also termed queen regnant. 2. The wife of a reigning king. ( She has some royal prerogatives (such as having her own officers), but is in many ways legally no different from the rest of the king's subjects. - Also termed queen consort. 3. A queen who rules in place of the actual sovereign (e.g., if the sovereign is a child). -Also termed queen regent. 4. DOWAGER-QUEEN.

Queen's Bench

Historically, the highest common-law court in England, presided over by the reigning monarch. ( The jurisdiction of this court now lies with the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice; when a king begins to reign, the name automatically changes to King's Bench. - Abbr. Q.B. - Also termed Court of Queen's Bench. Cf. KING'S BENCH.

Queen's Bench Division

The English court, formerly known as the Queen's Bench or King's Bench, that presides over tort and contract actions; applications for judicial review, and some magistrate-court appeals. - Abbr. Q.B.D.

Queen's Counsel

See QUEEN'S COUNSEL.

Queen's evidence

English law. Testimony provided by one criminal defendant, usu. under a promise of pardon, against another criminal defendant. - Also termed (when a king reigns) King's evidence. See state's evidence.

Queen's evidence.

See EVIDENCE.

Queen's prison

A prison established in 1842 in Southwark, to be used for debtors and criminals confined under authority of the superior courts at Westminster, the highest court of admiralty, and the bankruptcy laws. ( It replaced the Queen's Bench Prison, Fleet Prison, and Marshalsea Prison but was closed in 1862.

Queen's proctor

A solicitor that represents the Crown in domestic-relations, probate, and admiralty cases. ( For example, in a suit for divorce or nullity of marriage, the Queen's proctor might intervene to prove collusion between the parties. - Also termed (when a king reigns) King's proctor.

dowager-queen

The widow of the king of England. - Also termed queen dowager; queen mother."A queen dowager is the widow of the king, and as such enjoys most of the privileges belonging to her as queen consort. But it is not high treason to conspire her death; or to violate her chastity ... because the succession to the crown is not thereby endangered. Yet still, ... no man can marry a queen dowager without special licence from the king, on pain of forfeiting his lands and goods .... A queen dowager, when married again to a subject, doth not lose her regal dignity, as peeresses dowager do their peerage when they marry commoners." 1 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 217 (1765).

perpetuity of the king or queen

A fiction of English law that for political purposes the king or queen is immortal; that is, a monarch dies, but the office is never vacant.

queen dowager

See DOWAGER-QUEEN.

queen mother