Bódog Czorda (18 December 1828 – 4 July 1904) was a Hungarian lawyer and politician.
He worked as a lawyer until the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 when joined to the Honvédség. After the defeat of the War of Independence he was involuntarily conscripted to the Imperial Army in Italy. After that he was a lawyer in his birthplace, Szabadka (today: Subotica, Serbia). He was arrested because of his political activities in 1860. He was released only after the October Diploma.
Czorda served as Member of Parliament in 1861. After that he worked as lawyer again. He was appointed a judge of the Royal Court of Pest in 1869, later he was one of the judges of the Curia Regia. He served as Secretary of State for Justice since 1889. He was elected President of the Royal Court of Budapest in 1892. He served as Vice President of the Curia Regia between 1893 and 1901.
The General Court, informally known as the European General Court (EGC), is a constituent court of the Court of Justice of the European Union. It hears actions taken against the institutions of the European Union by individuals and member states, although certain matters are reserved for the European Court of Justice. Decisions of the General Court can be appealed to the Court of Justice, but only on a point of law. Prior to the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty on 1 December 2009, it was known as the Court of First Instance.
Chancellor is a title of various official positions in the governments of many countries. The original chancellors were the cancellarii of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the cancelli of a basilica, which separated the judge and counsel from the audience. A chancellor's office is called a chancellery or chancery. The word is now used in the titles of many various officers in various settings. Nowadays the term is most often used to describe:
The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister. The lord chancellor is appointed by the sovereign on the advice of the prime minister. Prior to the union of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain, there were separate lord chancellors for the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland. There were Lord Chancellors of Ireland until 1922.
The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IJL) strives to advance human rights everywhere, including the prevention of war crimes, the punishment of war criminals, the prohibition of weapons of mass destruction, and international co-operation based on the rule of law and the fair implementation of international covenants and conventions.
Curia in ancient Rome referred to one of the original groupings of the citizenry.
The Court of King's Bench, formally known as The Court of the King Before the King Himself, was a court of common law in the English legal system. Created in the late 12th to early 13th century from the curia regis, the King's Bench initially followed the monarch on his travels. The King's Bench finally joined the Court of Common Pleas and Exchequer of Pleas in Westminster Hall in 1318, making its last travels in 1421. The King's Bench was merged into the High Court of Justice by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873, after which point the King's Bench was a division within the High Court. The King's Bench was staffed by one Chief Justice and usually three Puisne Justices.
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Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan is an Indian-born American lawyer and jurist serving as the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before becoming a federal judge, Srinivasan served as Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States and argued 25 cases before the United States Supreme Court. He was also a partner at the law firm O'Melveny & Myers and was a lecturer at Harvard Law School.
Antal Günther was a Hungarian politician and journalist, who served as Minister of Justice between 1907 and 1909. He was the President of the Curia Regia from 1909 to 1920. He also served as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Magnates between 1917 and 1918.
The Statute XIX of 1937 regarding establishing of a National Council when the Regent seat is vacant was a 1937 law of the Kingdom of Hungary. The National Council (Országtanács) would be an interim collective head of state.
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Dr. Sándor Kozma de Leveld was a Hungarian politician and jurist, who served as the first Crown Prosecutor of Hungary from 1872 to 1896.
Béla Vörösmarty was a Hungarian jurist and politician, son of poet Mihály Vörösmarty and Laura Csajághy and brother of Ilona Vörösmarty.
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The Curia of Hungary, also known as the Supreme Court of Hungary before 2011, is the supreme court and highest judicial authority of Hungary. The Curia was founded in 1949 as the People's Republic of Hungary Supreme Court. It was preceded by the Royal Curia of the Kingdom of Hungary. The current president of the court is András Zsolt Varga.
Atanasie Marian Marienescu was an Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian folklorist, ethnographer and judge.
Gerard William Augustine Hogan, is an Irish judge, lawyer and academic who has served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland since October 2021. He previously served as Advocate General of the European Court of Justice from 2018 to 2021, a Judge of the Court of Appeal from 2014 to 2018 and a Judge of the High Court from 2010 to 2014. Hogan first worked as a barrister and lecturer in law specialising in constitutional and administrative law.
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