Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
præmunire .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) See
præmunire .
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- noun The
offense under English law of appealing to or obeying a foreign court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown. - noun The
writ charging this offense. - noun The
penalty for this offense.
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Examples
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This attendance increased his uneasiness to such a degree, that he could not help uttering a soliloquy aloud, in which he cursed his fate for having depended upon the promise of such a wag; and swore, that if once he was clear of this scrape, he would not bring himself into such a premunire again for the whole kingdom of France.
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Here again I brought my self into a premunire with the disputative
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He then exhorted him, with many protestations of friendship, to compromise the unhappy affair by exchanging releases with the attorney before his delirium should be known, otherwise he would bring himself into a most dangerous premunire, whether the plaintiff should die of his wound, or live to prosecute him for assault.
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The bill further declared that all persons assisting in, or knowing of any intention in any member of the royal family to marry without fulfilling these ceremonies, and not disclosing it, incurred the penalties of a premunire.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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If the reader will look back at the passage touching the premunire, quoted above, he will see that these few lines from Raphael Holinshed are somewhat fatal to an argument in favor of Shakespeare's "legal acquirements," in so far as it rests in any degree upon the use of terms or the knowledge displayed in that passage.
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Christopher Hales, to sue out a writ of premunire against him. ...
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All statutes of premunire were repealed, and all laws of King Edward in favour of reformation in the
Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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I dare say Possum Holler is ruled with a rod of iron; that you issue your lettre de cachet and premunire of your own motion, and that when your fiat is not promptly obeyed you quote poetry to your subordinates after this style:
A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling. 1862
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They had been concerned chiefly with regulations affecting trade and labour; and the proceedings on the premunire being thought for the time to press sufficiently on the clergy, they deferred the further prosecution of their own complaints till the following year.
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856
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The clergy, as we saw, were relieved of their premunire on engaging to pay 118,000 pounds within five years.
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856
yarb commented on the word premunire
"...he could not help uttering a soliloquy aloud, in which he cursed his fate for having depended upon the promise of such a wag; and swore, that if once he was clear of this scrape, he would not bring himself into such a premunire again for the whole kingdom of France."
— Smollett, Peregrine Pickle
March 4, 2022