- Sir John
Fineux (or Fyneux) (c. 1441 – 1526) was an
English judge and
Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
Fineux was the son of
William Fyneux of Swingfield...
- the law of the land" (subject to exceptions).
British Chief Justice John
Fineux stated in 1519 that "the Law of God and the Law of the Land are all one"...
- in 1510–11, and had
married as his
first wife
Mildred Fineux, the
daughter of Sir John
Fineux,
Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and
Elizabeth Apuldrefield...
- 1469 5 May 1481 Sir
William Hussey 7 May 1481 8
September 1495 Sir John
Fineux 24
November 1495 23
January 1526 Sir John
FitzJames 23
January 1526 21 January...
- by
Nicholas Harris Nicolas, esq, page 686; the will of
Elizabeth Lady
Fineux, of Herne, Kent;
written 1539;"to
Master Nicholas Rydley,
vicar of Herne...
- was
placed in her memory,
dated 1470. Hawe
Manor was
later home to John
Fineux, Lord
Chief Justice of the King's
Bench from 1495 to 1526.
Nicholas Ridley...
- the case for
trover and conversion. Most of this
reform took
place under Fineux CJ, who
never lived to see the
results of his work; it took over 100 years...
- 1495, and was
buried at Sempringham. On 24
November of that year, Sir John
Fineux succeeded him as
Chief Justice.
About 1474, Sir
William Hussey married Elizabeth...
- the
Exchequer 1522 – 1526 Succeeded by Sir
Richard Broke Preceded by John
Fineux Lord
Chief Justice of the King's
Bench 1526 – 1539 Succeeded by
Edward Montagu...
-
first use of the
phrase comes from a 1505
opinion of
Chief Justice John
Fineux in a King's Bench,
reported in the Year
Books (the
records of litigation...
