justiciary

NOUN
  1. formerly a high judicial officer
  2. the jurisdiction of a justiciar
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How To Use justiciary In A Sentence

  • In legislative and justiciary acts the Latin names are still retained. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • In short, improper methods impeded law enforcement; investigatory means took control of justiciary ends.
  • 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. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859
  • Hamiltown relict of Thomas Mitchell ther, prisoners in the tolbuith of Borrowstownes, are found guiltie be ane assyse, of the abominable cryme of witchcraft committed be them in manner mentioned in their dittayes, and are decerned and adjudged be us under subscryvers (commissioners of justiciary speciallie appoynted to this effect) to be taken to the west end of Borrowstownes, the ordinar place of execution ther, upon Tuesday the twentie-third day of December current, betwixt two and four o'cloack in the efternoon, and there be wirried at a steack till they be dead, and thereafter to have their bodies burnt to ashes. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
  • 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. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  • 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. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
  • 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. Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
  • In a few years, we may find a more professional Crown Office as well as a more contrite justiciary.
  • The Edinburgh high court of justiciary heard that Taylor had "no concept" of how dangerous it was to give a child methadone. Couple jailed for giving baby methadone
  • The High Court of Justiciary has once sat outside Scotland, at Zeist in the Netherlands.
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