单词 | prévôté |
释义 | prévôtén. 1. In France and in Jersey and Guernsey: a fief held by a prévôt (see prévôt n. 4). Now historical. ΚΠ 1682 J. Warburton Treat. Hist. Guernsey (1822) 68 There are yet other fiefs where the lord's rent is received by prévotés, which are tenements or lands, parcel of the fief, obliged by their tenure to collect the lord's rents. 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. II. 417 For her [sc. Joan of Arc's] sake the prevoté of Vaucouleurs has been declared ever since exempt from all taxes. 1897 Eng. Hist. Rev. 12 343 The bailli received a salary and handed over the surplus, if any, on the revenue of the prévôté [of Paris] to the royal treasury. 1958 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 18 369 An annual income payable from a local prevôté was more reliable than one assigned on the royal treasury. 1997 Speculum 72 655 They included a list of fief-rentes. These were annual sums of money which the king paid from his prévôtés to individual knights in exchange for an oath of fealty. 2. In France and some French-speaking countries: a court exercising local jurisdiction; the building where this court sits. Now historical. ΚΠ 1759 J. Barrow New Geogr. Dict. I. at Beaumont It has a royal court of justice and prevoté. 1763 W. Mildmay Police of France ii. 39 If a complaint of a prevotal case..should happen to be made to the presidial before it be made to the prevoté, the judge of the presidial shall keep possession of the trial. 1787 G. Greive tr. F. J. de Chastellux Trav. N.-Amer. I. 69 A prévôté and a prison are built there, surrounded by pallisades. 1819 Act 53 Geo. III in App. to XXVIIIth Vol. Jrnls. of House of Assembly of Province of Lower-Canada App. Q (A) The mode of proceeding shall be conformable to that by the said Ordinance prescribed with respect to the suits common in the Courts of Prevôté. 1906 W. D. Le Sueur Count Frontenac v. 108 It probably was not foreseen that the governor might play off the Prévôté against the Sovereign Council. 1920 H. E. Bolton & T. M. Marshall Colonization of N. Amer., 1492–1783 iv. 97 A minor court called the prévôté, having original jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases, was reëstablished, appeals being taken from the prévôté to the council. 2004 J. Pritchard In Search of Empire v. 252 Only 3.5 percent of the cases before the prévôté of Quebec involved criminal cases. 3. In France: a small contingent of civil or military police, under the authority of a Provost Marshal. ΚΠ 1921 Illinois Law Rev. Apr. 557 The ‘prévoté’ or military gendarmerie exercises the functions of military police and also has jurisdiction upon enemy territory. 1977 Protocol Victims Internat. Conflict 8 June in I. Papanicolopulu & T. Scovazzi Quale Diritto nei Conflitti Armati? (2006) 268 Throughout the duration of the time of war the Gendarmerie shall provide detachment known as ‘prévôtés’ (military police) to maintain order in and police the other armed forces. Each prévôté shall be under the command of a ‘prévôt’ (Assistant Provost Marshal), who shall be an officer of the Gendarmerie. 1997 J. A. Lynn Giant of Grand Siècle xii. 402 Only the oldest French infantry regiments..had a..prévôté... Mounted regiments seem to have lacked prévôtés altogether. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1682 |
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