Another reason was that the Justiciar of Chester had caused certain of the men of David, brother of the Prince of Wales, to be hung, contrary to the usage of the Welsh.
Henry's legal and administrative reforms are illustrated by the Tractatus de legibus attributed to Ranulph Glanville, his chief justiciar (ed.
Against the wishes of the justiciar he planned and carried out an expedition to the west of France (1230); when it failed he laid the blame upon his minister.
Frederick II found it impossible to attend to all the business of the royal court, and so in 1235 appointed a justiciar to represent him in all minor cases.
Frederic II Appoints a Justiciarand a Court Secretary, 1235.
This justiciar shall not fix the time for the more important cases which come before him without our special command.
We decree therefore that our court shall have as justiciar a free man, and he shall hold the office at least a year if he judges justly.
The officer who administered this formidable jurisdiction was the Bailie of the Regality, or 'Justiciar Chamberlain and Bailie'--the Bailiary had become virtually hereditary in the family of Airlie.
I am with the Abbot,' was all the Justiciarwould answer.
Give him two hundred pounds more,' said the Justiciar to the Abbot, 'and keep the lands yourself.
His little band of followers gradually attracted more, and at length they surprised the Justiciar Ormsby, while holding a court at Scone, and, though he escaped out of their hands, they secured both prisoners and booty.
His ingenuity and shrewdness were so active and in a short time became so useful, that the king appointed him justiciar and collector of the whole realm.
Councils suitable for advising the local Governors, when they, on behalf of the American Union as Justiciar State, exercise their inferior justiciary powers, already exist.
If they are free states in union with the American Union as the Justiciar State and form with it a Greater American Union, is it proper to call them "dependencies," which may imply a direct legislative power over them?
A Justiciar was an official who exercised the power of government in a judicial manner.
The expression "Justiciar State," however, seems to be more scientifically correct.
The power exercised by a Justiciar State in a Justiciary Union, they recognized as being neither strictly legislative, nor strictly executive, nor strictly judicial, but a power compounded of all these three powers.
The law of nature and of nations, being universal, they considered as abolishing sovereignty in the European sense, so that the highest function of an independent State was to be the Justiciar of other States.
He mandado justiciar todos," says Alva to the king, in a letter written in cipher, April, 13.
On November 10, he was brought before a not unfriendly tribunal, in which the malice of the new justiciar was tempered by the baronial instincts of the Earls of Cornwall, Warenne, Pembroke, and Lincoln.
The administrative families, whose chief representative was the justiciar Hubert de Burgh, held to their tradition of unswerving loyalty, and joined with the followers of the old king, of whom William Marshal was the chief survivor.
But the summer saw the utter defeat of the O'Connors by the justiciar at the bloody battle of Athenry, where King Phelim and the noblest of his sept perished.
At last king and justiciar were glad to agree to demolish the new castle on receiving from Llewelyn the expenses involved in the task.
Thereupon he passionately denounced the justiciar as an "old traitor," and accused him of being bribed by the French queen.
In these circumstances it was natural for Bishop Peter and the legate to join together against the justiciar and the archbishop.
Geoffrey was an old man; he had long held the great post of justiciar of Ireland; and he was himself the liegeman of the marshal.
Luckily, Randolph stood aside, and his withdrawal gave the aged earl marshal the position for which his nomination as justiciar at Gloucester had already marked him out.
Despite their differences as to the execution of the charters, his removal lost the justiciar a much-needed friend.
He made his way southwards, and in September won a victory over the forces of the Earl of Ulster and the justiciar at Dundalk, then in the south of Ulster.
In effect, though William de Bréauté and his followers showed a gallant spirit, it resisted the justiciar for barely two months.
Edward won over the Earl of Hereford, whose importance was doubled by his custody of the Gloucester lands, the ex-justiciar Roger Bigod, and above all Roger Mortimer.
Archbishop Hubert Walter ruled as Justiciar with considerable wisdom and success, and as long as Richard was sent the money that he craved, he left the realm to itself.
His place asJusticiar was taken by Archbishop Walter of Rouen, whom Richard sent home from the Crusade for the purpose.
Meanwhile the king's representative in England, the Justiciar Richard de Lucy, had called out the levies of the shires against the revolted barons.
But Hubert de Burgh, the Justiciarof King Henry, put to sea from Dover with a small squadron of ships raised from the Cinque Ports, and met the French in mid-channel off Sandwich.
But in 1232 the old Justiciar was not only dismissed, but thrown into prison, because Henry was wroth with him for frustrating an unwise and unnecessary war with France.
But the odds were against him, and after a short sharp fight he was slain, with his eldest son Henry, Hugh Despencer the Justiciar of England, and many of the best knights of the baronial party.
Outside England the title justiciar was given under Henry II.
In Scotland the title of justiciar was borne, under the earlier kings, by two high officials, one having his jurisdiction to the north, the other to the south of the Forth.
The chief freedman of the Lord Chief Justiciarhad simply summoned judge and lawyers into his office and ordered them to settle the suit at once.
Gerald's cousin, the Lord Rhys, had been appointed the king's justiciar in South Wales.
Once again the chapter nominated Gerald; once more the royal authority was exerted, this time by Archbishop Hubert, the justiciar in the king's absence, to defeat the ambitious Welshman.
The archbishop and justiciar had already taken the cross; they remained true to their vows and went to the Holy Land, the archbishop dying at the siege of Acre, heartbroken at the wickedness of the army.
That is why the archbishop and the justiciaraccompanied the expedition.
The justiciar continued to be the chief officer of state, next to the king, until the fall of Hubert de Burgh (in the reign of King John), described by Stubbs as the last of the great justiciars.
The justiciar may, therefore, be said to have become from a political a purely judicial officer.
England, appears in the latter part of Stephen's reign as sheriff and justiciar of the county of Essex.
The chancellor took the place of the justiciar in council, the treasurer in the exchequer, while the two offshoots from the curia regis, the common pleas and the exchequer, received chiefs of their own.
The treasurer was subordinate to both the justiciar and the chancellor, but the removal of the chancery from the exchequer in the reign of Richard I.
He traces his descent from the justiciarof the Norman kings.
The Bishop of Salisbury, next called upon, made the same refusal; and the justiciar seeing that the plan was likely to fail dissolved the council in anger.
In October the Earl of Leicester landed in Norfolk with a body of foreign troops, but was defeated by the justiciar and the Earl of Cornwall, who took him and his wife prisoners.
Richard of Lucy, the justiciar and special representative of the king, and his uncle, Reginald of Cornwall, were the chief leaders of his cause.
At a council of the kingdom held at Oxford on December 7, the justiciar presented a demand of the king that the baronage should unite to send him at their expense three hundred knights for a year's service with him abroad.
He was also made governor of Dublin and justiciar of Ireland, but this title is the only evidence that he was to be regarded as the representative of the king.
Then the justiciar interfered by force, dragged him out of sanctuary, and had him executed.
John gained less power than he had expected, and found the new justiciar no more willing to give him control of the kingdom than the old one.
He sent to Ranulf Glanvill, justiciar of England, to bring John over to Normandy, and on their arrival he sent for Richard and proposed to him to give up Aquitaine to his brother and to take his homage for it.
Mr. Round holds that the office of Justiciar of London was created by Henry I.
The pledges of Henry the First had long been forgotten when the justiciar brought them to light, but Langton saw the vast importance of such a precedent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "justiciar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
