marshalsea

2 definitions found

marshalsea - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Marshalsea \Mar"shal*sea\, n. [Marshal + OE. se a seat. See
     See a seat.]
     The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in
     Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household.
     [Eng.]
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Court of Marshalsea, a court formerly held before the
        steward and marshal of the king's house to administer
        justice between the king's domestic servants.
        --Blackstone.
        [1913 Webster]

marshalsea - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  MARSHALSEA, English law. The name of a prison belonging to the court of the 
  king's bench.