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Heemrad Hist.|ˈhiːmræt, ˈheɪmrɑːd|
Also -raad, -raat. Pl. -ra(a)den.
[Du., f. heem village, home + raad council.]
A local petty court or council assisting the landdrost in South Africa and also formerly in Holland; also, a member of this council.
1801J. Barrow Trav. S. Afr. i. 12 A civil magistrate called a Landrost, who, with his Hemraaden, or a council of country burghers, is vested with powers to regulate the police of his district, [etc.]. 1823W. W. Bird State of Cape of Good Hope in 1822 ii. 23 An Englishman has been rarely called to the office of heemrad. 1876Encycl. Brit. V. 47/2 Prior to 1827 there existed in the several districts of the colony an institution established by the Dutch called the Board of Landrost and Heemraaden. 1888Theal in J. P. Fitzpatrick Transvaal (1899) 10 The abolition in 1827 of the courts of landdrost and heemraden. 1900Westm. Gaz. 19 Dec. 3/2 Lord Caledon, after our second annexation of the Cape, revived an old kind of elected Councils, named Heemraden, for the government of the inland districts. 1970S. Afr. Panorama Feb. 45/2 In 1682 local administration was set up in the form of four Heemraden. |