单词 | capital or chief justiciar |
释义 | > as lemmasCapital or Chief Justiciar c. The chief political and judicial officer under 12th- and 13th-cent. kings of England, who represented the king in all relations of state, acting as regent in his absence and as royal deputy in his presence, and presiding over the curia regis. Also more fully Capital or Chief Justiciar. Cf. justiciary n.2 1b.The office of justiciar came to an end in the thirteenth cent., the judicial functions passing to the Chief Justice. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > head of government > [noun] > first minister of a ruler or state > under Norman or Plantagenet kings High Justicec1300 justiciar1598 Chief Justiciary1641 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 226 Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury and Iusticiar of England [in the year 1197]. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. vi. 456/1 Robert Earle of Leicester, chiefe Iusticiar of England. 1686 F. Philipps Investigatio Jurium Antiquorum v. 51 A Parliament was called in Easter-Term following, which brought..a demand for former pretended rights in electing the Justiciar, Chancellor, and Treasurer. 1780 G. Crompton Pract. Common-placed I. Introd. p. xxvi The supereminent authority exercised by the Chief Justiciars, whose tyranny had extended itself, as well over the prerogatives of the King as the rights of the people. 1829 G. Norton Comm. City of London i. vi. 55 By the Normans a specific and supreme judicial court, called the aula regis or curia regis, was established, over which an officer called the Capital Justiciar presided. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 432 The Justiciar, chief administrator of the law,..was, while his office lasted, the most powerful subject in the realm. 1927 W. A. Morris Medieval Eng. Sheriff v. 121 To him [sc. the sheriff] belonged all pleas whence he had a writ of the king or the capital justiciar. 1968 F. D. Logan Excommun. & Secular Arm in Medieval Eng. Introd. 22 (note) A letter from the archbishop of York to the chief justiciar Geoffrey fitz Peter, earl of Exeter. 2010 J. S. Hamilton Plantagenets i. 14 The former justiciar..was stripped of all the lands and wealth he had accumulated since his initial appointment as justiciar by John in 1215. < as lemmas |
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