immunistn.

1894 Eng. Hist. Rev. 9 600 Private justice, at all events the justice of the ‘immunist’, was no very new thing in the England of the Confessor's day.

1897 F. W. Maitland Domesday Bk. & Beyond ii. 277 It is conceded that the ‘immunist’ (it is convenient to borrow a term that French writers have coined) is entitled to many of the fines and forfeitures that arise from offences committed within his territory.

1897 F. W. Maitland Domesday Bk. & Beyond ii. 288 The land-lord..is an immunist, or is the king, who..occupies the position of an immunist.

1936 J. Tait Medieval Eng. Borough ii. ii. 45 The Anglo-Saxon borough court..could entertain cases which from the twelfth century at least would be tried by royal justices or those of great immunists like the earl of Chester.

1957 J. M. Wallace-Hadrill in J. M. Wallace-Hadrill & J. McManners France: Govt. & Society ii. ii. 41 Judicially, and often fiscally, the immunist is himself the substitute of the count, though not of the king.

1991 O. Patterson Freedom I. v. xxii. 366 The freedom granted in the charters had two other distinctive attributes: they were privileges granted by a higher authority; and, apart from the lordly immunist, they were often granted less to individuals than to communities.