common pleas

Daniel Wells, chief justice of the court of common pleas of Massachusetts, died at Cambridge, aged 63.

On revising the statutes good behavior was made the term of tenure for the judges and clerks of common pleas.

A statute of Elizabeth required a list of fines to be exposed in the court of common pleas and at assizes.

The court of common pleas in those days corresponded to the county court of our time.

Five school examiners are appointed in each county, by the Court of Common Pleas, who are to examine teachers.