| 单词 | bed of justice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbed of justice 7. bed of justice (French lit de justice): a bed adorned in a particular way in the French king's bedchamber, where he gave receptions; spec. the throne of the king in the Parliament of Paris; also, a sitting of this parliament at which the king was present. As the king sometimes convened the parliament to enforce the registration of his own decrees, the term came to be chiefly or exclusively applied to sessions held for this purpose. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > legislator > [noun] > body of legislators > specific session of French parliament bed of justice1753 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Bed of justice..is only held on affairs relating to the state. 1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 251 The King has been obliged to hold a bed of justice, to enforce the registering of new taxes. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. iv. 118 On the morrow, this Parlement,..declares all that was done on the prior day to be null, and the Bed of Justice as good as a futility. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xv. 265 The..bed of justice, in which the king..solemnly attested the decisions..put in form by parliament. < as lemmas |
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