| Case type | Definition |
| Abduction | Cases involving the abduction of men, women, apprentices, servants etc. |
| Arbitration | Cases concerning or involving decisions made at arbitration. |
| Assault | Cases involving physical assault or personal injury, either on the plaintiff themselves or on servants or others for which the plaintiff seeks compensation. |
| Bond | Cases directly involving the payment or non-payment of a bond (not used for detinue cases involving the detention of bonds). |
| Breach of Statute | Cases involving the breach of one or more statutes. |
| Contract (not service/employment, or marriage) | Contract other than those involving service or employment, or marriage. |
| Contract (service/apprenticeship) | Contract involving service or apprenticeship agreement. |
| Debt | Debt case of unspecified nature or not matching other pre-defined case types. |
| Detention of goods | Cases involving the detention of goods / chattels, including documents. |
| Dower | Cases involving dower rights to real estate or chattels. |
| Embracery | Illegal influence over juries, or corruption by jurors, contrary to various statutes. |
| Housebreaking | Cases involving the breaking of an individual's house or close. |
| Imprisonment | Cases involving the unlawful imprisonment of one or more parties or other individuals. |
| Loan | Debts involving loans, generally of money. |
| Maintenance | Maintaining the suit of a third party, as per the statute OR Maintaining a false suit (malicious) on one's own behalf. |
| Marriage contract | Cases involving, or related to, marriage contracts. |
| Negligence | Failure of individual (official, tradesman, etc) to carry out duties, through negligence or corruption. |
| Real action / rents / damage to real estate | Cases involving the seisin of property, or the renting / leasing / holding of properties for a set period. |
| Reckoning of Account | Cases involving the reckoning of an account, either debts outstanding or the failure to render such an account. |
| Safe keeping | Cases involving property (real estate / chattels / documents) put into safe keeping, generally with a third party. |
| Sale of goods | Cases directly or indirectly involving the sale of goods. |
| Surety of peace | Cases involving bonds / oaths / agreements giving surety for good behavior. |
| Taking of goods | Cases involving the unauthorized taking of chattels. |
| Trespass (Chattels) | Deprivation of an individual from their property, by destruction, damage, etc. (e.g. unauthorised killing of livestock), but not theft. |
| Usurpation / abuse of rights | Cases involving the abuse of rights of appointment / taxation / lordship by one or more individuals. |