BENCH - Black's Law Dictionary

What is BENCH? Definition of BENCH in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.

A seat of judgment or tribunal for the administration of justice; the seat occupied by judges in courts; also the court itself, or the aggregate of the judges composing a court, as in the phrase "before the full bench."

The judges taken collectively, as distinguished from counsellors and advocates, who are called the bar.

The term, indicating originally the seat of the judges, came to denote the body of judges taken collectively, and also the tribunal itself, as the King's Bench.

In English ecclesiastical law. The aggregate body of bishops.

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