单词 | justitium |
释义 | justitiumn. Originally and chiefly Roman History. A period during which activity in law courts is formally suspended; a legal vacation. Hence: a period of cessation of any activity, a vacation.Particularly common in the 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > holidays > formal > legal or university voiding1468 summer vacation1507 justitium1583 long vacation1631 vacants1647 long1848 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. ii. 53 For some vrgent cause the lawe was commaunded to be stopped, which is called Iustitium. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. iii. 89 He assembled the Senat, and by the authoritie & assent of the Nobles, proclaimed Iustitium [L. iustitio indicto], or a generall cessation or vacation in all courts of law. a1626 F. Bacon Charge against William Talbot in Resuscitatio (1657) 75 The Term, hath been, almost, turned, into a Iustitium, or Vacancy. 1631 D. Featley in R. Crakanthorpe Vigilius Dormitans Advt. to Rdr. sig. A6 Which I speake not for a justitium to any errour, or that I wish any way should bee given to those plausible tenents to corrupt reason. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xiii. 222 As though there were any feriation in nature or justitiums imaginable in professions, whose subject is naturall. View more context for this quotation 1662 E. Lake Memoranda 100 It look'd then in that Long Parliament, as though they would have swallowed up all other courts, and made a kind of Justitium in them, during the time of their Session. 1720 J. Johnson Coll. Eccl. Laws Church of Eng. I. Addenda sig. Hh8 On these Days ther should be a Justitium, or Non-term. 1853 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 576 Put the danger of a justitium a few years further off,..my stock has..a higher price. 1901 A. H. J. Greenidge Rom. Public Life vi. 277 By its [sc. the Senate's] practical weight in the declaration of a justitium it might suspend the operation of the business of the courts. 2001 R. B. Litchfield tr. S. Bertelli King's Body i. iii. 47 In ancient Rome, the death of the emperor was followed by a period of interregnum called the justitium... All legal functions were suspended for the duration of the justitium. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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