justiciar

  • 11Justiciar of Lothian — The Justiciar of Lothian (in Norman Latin, Justiciarus Laudonie ) was an important legal office in the High Medieval Kingdom of Scotland. The Justiciars of Lothian were responsible for the administration of royal justice in the province of… …

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  • 12Justiciar of North Wales — The Justiciar of North Wales was a legal office concerned with the government of the three counties in north west Wales created by Edward I of England out of the Kingdom of Gwynedd under the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284. He was responsible for the …

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  • 13justiciar — noun Etymology: Medieval Latin justitiarius, from Latin justitia Date: circa 1580 the chief political and judicial officer of the Norman and later kings of England until the 13th century …

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  • 14Justiciar — The officer who acted as king s regent or viceroy. He presided at the king s court, during the time of the Norman and early Plantagenet mon archs, when the king was in France or Normandy. The office lapsed in 1261. Its Latin form is justitiarius …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 15justiciar — n. high court judge in medieval England; justiciary …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 16justiciar — [dʒʌ stɪʃə] noun historical 1》 a regent and deputy presiding over the court of a Norman or early Plantagenet king of England. 2》 either of two supreme judges in medieval Scotland. Origin C15: from med. L. justitiarius, from L. justitia, from… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 17Justiciar — The head of the royal judicial system and the king s viceroy when absent from the country. ♦ Regent in England under William I, chief minister until the 1220s. (Gies, Joseph and Francis. Life in a Medieval Castle, 230) ♦ A high administrative and …

    Medieval glossary

  • 18justiciar — jus·ti·ci·ar …

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  • 19justiciar — jus•ti•ci•ar [[t]dʒʌˈstɪʃ i ər[/t]] n. 1) law why a high judicial officer in medieval England 2) law why the chief political and judicial officer in England from the reign of William I to that of Henry III • Etymology: 1475–85; < ML… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 20justiciár — ja m (á) zgod., do odprave tlačanstva uradnik pri zemljiškem gospodu, ki opravlja sodne posle: sprejeti v službo justiciarja …

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