lit de justice

Definitions

A special parliamentary session headed by the king in pre-Revolutionary France, where royal edicts could be forcibly registered.

Equivalents

Examples

“They would then be officially registered by edicts of the King in that special process⟳, the lit de justice (which could also be used to enforce edicts that the Parlement resisted).”

“The Parlement's remonstrances were not effective, and the Six Acts were enforced by a lit de justice in March⟳ 1776.”

“This, however, is only a hypothesis which leaves out of account the special circumstances that led to the lit de justice of 24 July.”

“A decision of a lit de justice could only be stamped by the Parliament.”

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