单词 | justice seat |
释义 | justice seatn. 1. The seat on which a judge sits when trying a cause or pronouncing judgement; a judgement seat. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > place where court is held > [noun] > seat of judgement doom-settlec1000 doom-stoola1250 benchc1300 bink?a1400 bankc1450 judgement seat1526 tribunala1530 justice seat1548 pew1558 chair1629 cushion1656 banc1689 1548 R. Hutten tr. J. Spangenberg Sum of Diuinitie sig. Rviijv We must al appeare before the iustice seate [L. tribunal] of Christe. c1598 King James VI & I Basilicon Doron (1944) I. ii. 96 Ordinarie counsaillis & iustice seatis in euerie kingdome of thaire owin cuntree men. 1648 C. Dallison Royalist's Def. v. 64 The same necessity which made the Members exclude the King from His negative Voice..enforceth them, to arrogate the Justice seate too. 1754 Connoisseur No. 12 (1755) 71 A Hound..came jumping into the Hall, and running to the Justice-Seat lifted up his leg against the Judge's robe. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xii. 128 The idlers..gather about the justice-seat. 1894 R. H. Sherard tr. C.-F. De Méneval Mem. to serve for Hist. Napoleon I III. i. 11 He would present himself with confidence before God's justice seat, and would await His judgment without fear. 2010 S. Kenyon & D. Love Silent Truth ii. 25 The senator's affair isn't with just some woman but a judge under consideration for a justice seat with the Illinois Supreme Court. 2. English History. The highest forest court. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > forest-courts swanimote1189 wood-speech1222 justice seat1607 wood-motea1610 Eyre of the Forest1622 wood-plea court1672 speech1687 forest-court1768 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. F4/1 There be three courts of the forest, wherof the lowest is called the (Attachement) the meane, the (swaynemote) the highest, the (Iustice seate in eyre.). 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 193v Iustice seat is the highest Court that is held in a Forest, and it is alwayes held before the Lord chiefe Iustice in Eyre of the Forest. 1720 Present State Brit. Court 44/1 The Court of the Lord chief Justice Eyre, frequently calld the Justice-seat of the Forest. 1790 Topographer Feb. 81 (note) A chace hath no Court of Attachments, Swainmote, or Justice Seat, like a forest. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon at Forest Courts The court of justice-seat..was a court of record; but since the Revolution in 1688, the forest laws have fallen into total disuse. 1952 Econ. Hist. Rev. 5 83 The revival of the Justice Seat in 1634..made the Forest of Dean an area of occasional agitations down to 1641. 2010 R. L. Bradshaw God's Battleaxe v. 116 The decay of the court of the justice seat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548 |
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