The Hilary Sittings begin to-day in very different circumstances from those which used to characterise the ..
... Hilary Term. Time was when duriDg the last three weeks of January the three Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer sat in Banc, four Judges in each court, to decide points of law, at the end of which period the trials issues'.before juries began, and continued first Westminster, afterwards the Guildhall, till the opening of the Spring Assizes. Terms are now abolished except in ...