starostynskyi

Adjective

starostynskyi (not comparable)

1. (rare) Belonging to or administered by a starosta or starosty.
   • The courts of elders, starostynsky, were the earliest, as has been mentioned. They were competent to hear cases of servitude princes, boyars and minor nobility, and held sessions in the towns and castles, and in the residencies of the starosty. With the creation of the office of the voyevoda...1984, Микóла Льво́вич Фреїшин-Чирóвський [Nicholas L. Fr.-Chirovsky], “The political structure and the government of the Lithuanian-Rusʹ Commonwealth” (chapter two, pages 37–57), in The...
   • Obviously the matter was investigated in the magistrate’s court, and, evincing controversy, was passed on to the starostynsʹkyj court, as to a higher authority.2004, Ната́лія Є́мець [Natalia Jemetz], transl., edited by Dennis Soltys, The Ukrainian City in the XV to mid-XVII Centuries: Traditions and legal customs as a historical source — a historical...