Justice
LORD CHIEF, the title given to the chief judge of the Queen's (or King's) Bench Division of the High Court of Justice; formerly given also to the chief judge of the Common Pleas.
He of the Queen's (or King's) Bench was, and still is, Lord Chief-justice of England; and on him were conferred, in 1881, the powers of the Lord Chief-justice of Common Pleas, that division of the court being abolished. Puisne (i. e., lesser or ordinary) judges in all divisions of the high court bear the title of justice.