In legislative and justiciary acts the Latin names are still retained. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The justiciary nobles retained their judges, often called bailiffs, until the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Personally, I felt that I was responsible, but not guilty, but try to put that defense before the safos and the justiciary. From Wordnik.com. [Flash] Reference
The Edinburgh high court of justiciary heard that Taylor had "no concept" of how dangerous it was to give a child methadone. From Wordnik.com. [Couple jailed for giving baby methadone] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
On Mr. Erskine's receiving his appointment to succeed Mr. Dundas, as justiciary in Scotland, he exclaimed that he must go and order his silk robe. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
By his own account, all the justiciary of England conspired in unholy league to effect his ruin, and did not rest until they had accomplished their dread designs. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
Limtoc the general, Lalcon the chamberlain, and Balmuff the grand justiciary have prepared articles of impeachment against you, for treason and other capital crimes. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5] Reference
"Thy voice hath sound solemn enough for a justiciary.". From Wordnik.com. [The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time] Reference
M. de Lesdiguieres, who had received it for justiciary purposes from the. From Wordnik.com. [Scaramouche] Reference
Upon the 26th, he was brought before the justiciary, and indicted in common form. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
Upon the 26th, he was ordered by the council to be prosecuted before the justiciary. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
Mr. King was examined on the 16th before the justiciary, and Mr. Kid on the day following. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
In his own eyes he is the justiciary, and his investiture is bestowed upon him by eternal right. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 2] Reference
He was brought before the justiciary, and indicted for being with the rebels at Glasgow, Bothwel, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
Made chaplain by the king on his accession, he afterwards became first chancellor, and then justiciary. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum] Reference
To him he joined William Fitz-Osbern, his justiciary, a person of consummate prudence and great integrity. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)] Reference
He ruled England as grand justiciary in the absence of the monarch, and was thus viceregent of the kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [Beacon Lights of History] Reference
They signed their confession, which was afterwards produced in evidence against them before the justiciary. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
He again installed the Bishop of Norwich as his justiciary or lieutenant, who, three years, later, was succeeded by. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1] Reference
In 1188 Archbishop Baldwin made a preaching tour through Wales accompanied by Glanville, the great justiciary of Henry. From Wordnik.com. [Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures] Reference
His lordship, when one of the justiciary judges, returning from the north circuit to Perth, happened one night to sleep at Dunkeld. From Wordnik.com. [The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings] Reference
Connection between free states may be through a legislative medium, or through a justiciary medium, or through an executive medium. From Wordnik.com. ["Colony,"--or "Free State"? "Dependence,"--or "Just Connection"? "Empire,"--or "Union"?] Reference
Still he was forced to dissemble, and went as usual to the court of the English justiciary at Dumfries, which he was bound to attend. From Wordnik.com. [Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II] Reference
He was an itinerant regal justiciary, destroying the nests of brigands, purging the land with fire and sword from tyranny and oppression. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Paris] Reference
The territorial seignior and justiciary on his own domain, was through the partial survival of the old wholly secular feudal order equally sovereign. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Regime, Volume 2] Reference
At this moment there is a party of officers, with a justiciary warrant from Edinburgh, surrounding the house, and about to begin the search of it for you. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner] Reference
Lauderdale, being then his majesty's commissioner, was likewise present; ---- and which act of council was, by the lords of justiciary, most unjustly repelled, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
As justiciary, it owes them justice the same as to private persons, nothing more or less; only to render this to them, it has more to do, for they are composite and complex. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Regime, Volume 1] Reference
Austrian service, and died in the memorable year for Scotland, 1715; and this is all with which history, justiciary records, and tradition, furnish me relating to these matters. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner] Reference
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