The name of a former English court of ap-peal, intermediate between the superior courts of common law and the house of lords, when sitting as a court of appeal from any one of the three superior courts of common law, it was composed of Judges of the other two courts. 3 Bl. Comm. 56, 57 ; 3 Steph. Comm. 333, 356. By the judicature act (1873) the jurisdiction of this court is transferred to the court of appeal.