lit de justice

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

  • 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.

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