At one time the King used to sit with his judges in the King's Bench, but: he never delivered judgment except through one of the judges sitting with him. The necessity for the Court of Chancery arose because the common law recognised property but not trusts. It was with such matters that the Court of Chancery dealt. Under the Judicature Act of 1873 various branches were merged into the High Court, and now sat in one building. About the work of the Chancery Division very little was written; but there was another division, and of what took place there much was reported, especially in the cheaper papers and the Sunday papers. This division formerly was not one of the King's Court's, it was an ecclesiastical court.
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