单词 | lord justice general |
释义 | Lord Justice Generaln. Scots Law. The president of the High Court of Justiciary.The position became a sinecure usually held by a nobleman (the actual duties being discharged by the Justice Clerk), and was merged in the 1830s with that of Lord President of the Court of Session‘Lord’, originally prefixed as a deferential form of address or reference, became established in the title during the 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > in Scotland sheriff principal1446 Justice General1487 Senator of the College of Justice1540 commissary1567 justiciarc1575 Lord Justice General1586 sessioner1597 Justice Clerk1672 Lord Probationer1711 Lord Ordinary1722 sheriff depute1815 sheriff1816 1586 in Juridical Rev. (1892) 4 119 Committing to them..my full power express bidding commandment and charge..to compear before our soverane Lord Justice-General. 1630 in S. A. Gillon Sel. Justiciary Cases (1953) I. 122 My lord Justice general compeirand personallie in judgement producet ane new gift of justiciarie under his majesteis grit seall. 1695 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1822) IX. 366/2 The whole rights..of the Lord Justice General , Lord Justice Clerk, and other Judges. 1753 Trial J. Stewart 283 The Lord Justice General , and Lords Commissioners of justiciary..find unanimously, the pannel James Stewart guilty..of the murder of Colin Campbell of Glenure. 1830 Act 1 Will IV c. 69 §18 (margin) Office of lord justice general on next vacancy to devolve on lord president. 1890 Times 4 Mar. 11/3 Lord Carrington..was successively Clerk of the Privy Council, Lord Register, and Lord Justice-General of Scotland. 1918 M. G. Todd Life S. Jex-Blake ii. xvi. 396 The Lord Justice-General, being Chancellor of the University, gave no judgment. 1948 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 20 Oct. The wearers of ermine in Scotland, properly speaking, were the Peers of the Realm,..the Lord Justice-General and the Lord High Constable. 2000 J. Robertson Fanatic 267 Sir Archibald Primrose, Lord Justice General , opened the proceedings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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