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lit de justice

lit de justice noun: a special parliamentary session headed by the king in pre-Revolutionary France, where royal edicts could be forcibly registered.

Noun

lit de justice (plural lits de justice)

  1. A special parliamentary session headed by the king in pre-Revolutionary France, where royal edicts could be forcibly registered.
    • 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).2001, Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette
    • The Parlement's remonstrances were not effective, and the Six Acts were enforced by a lit de justice in March 1776.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 300

Examples of lit de justice in a sentence

  • This, however, is only a hypothesis which leaves out of account the special circumstances that led to the lit de justice of 24 July.2015, Robert J Knecht, Francis I and Sixteenth-Century France, Routledge:
  • A decision of a lit de justice could only be stamped by the Parliament.2024, Mehmet Baha Karan, A History of Banks, Springer, page 147:

Forms of lit de justice

plurallits de justice

Origin of lit de justice

From French lit de justice, referring to the throne occupied by the king when sitting in one of his judicial courts. Compare earlier bed of justice.

Questions about lit de justice

What does lit de justice mean?
Lit de justice means a special parliamentary session headed by the king in pre-Revolutionary France, where royal edicts could be forcibly registered.
How do you use lit de justice in a sentence?
This, however, is only a hypothesis which leaves out of account the special circumstances that led to the lit de justice of 24 July.
What part of speech is lit de justice?
Lit de justice is a noun.
What is the plural of lit de justice?
The plural of lit de justice is lits de justice.

Words near lit de justice in the dictionary

  1. Lisztomania
  2. Liszts
  3. lit
  4. lit a fire under
  5. lit crit
  6. lit de justice
  7. lit fic
  8. lit flick
  9. lit flicks
  10. Lit Hum
  11. lit into

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