Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A high judicial officer in medieval England.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to the law; legal; relating to the administration of justice.
- n. An administrator of justice; a justice or judge.
- n. In early English history, the chief administrator of both government and justice. The justiciary or chief justiciary was the king's deputy from the time of William the Conqueror to that of Henry III., presiding in the king's court and the exchequer, supervising all departments of government, and acting as regent in the king's absence. His functions were after ward divided between the lord chancellor, the chief justices, the lord high treasurer, etc. Also
justiciar . - n. In theology, one who trusts in the justice or uprightness of his own conduct.
- n. Administration of justice or of criminal law; judiciary.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A justiciar
- n. obsolete The office of a justiciar
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Old Eng. Law) An old name for the judges of the higher English courts.
WordNet 3.0
- n. formerly a high judicial officer
- n. the jurisdiction of a justiciar
Etymologies
- Medieval Latin iūstitiāria, from feminine of iūstitiārius, of the administration of justice, from Latin iūstitia, justice; see justice. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The Edinburgh high court of justiciary heard that Taylor had "no concept" of how dangerous it was to give a child methadone.”
“These were the officers of justice, with a warrant of justiciary to search for and apprehend Euphemia, or Effie Deans, accused of the crime of child-murder.”
“Personally, I felt that I was responsible, but not guilty, but try to put that defense before the safos and the justiciary.”
“From a child this Frank had been a donought that his father, a headborough, who could ill keep him to school to learn his letters and the use of the globes, matriculated at the university to study the mechanics but he took the bit between his teeth like a raw colt and was more familiar with the justiciary and the parish beadle than with his volumes.”
“At the hotel waited a bunch of urgent matters: some death sentences, a new justiciary, a famine in barley for the morrow if the train did not work.”
“In legislative and justiciary acts the Latin names are still retained.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
“The inflexibility of the justiciary lords, or their known integrity, form a fine incident in history; for the Scottish nation was at this period, ridden by Court faction, and broken down by recent oppression and massacre.”
“Limtoc the general, Lalcon the chamberlain, and Balmuff the grand justiciary have prepared articles of impeachment against you, for treason and other capital crimes.”
“The astonished lord justiciary asked the foreman, how it was possible to find the prisoner not guilty, with such overwhelming evidence, and was answered: "Becaase, my laird, she is purty.”
“II., was issued for arrears due to him since he was "justice and chancellor, and even lieutenant of the justiciary, as well in the late king's time as of the present king's.”
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