Also justitiary. [ad. med.L. jūstitiāria, -ciāria, f. jūstitia JUSTICE: see -ARY1 B. 3.]

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  1.  Sc. The jurisdiction of a justiciar or justiciary: see JUSTICIAR 2 b.

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  High Court of Justiciary, the supreme criminal tribunal of Scotland. Circuit court of justiciary, justiciary court, a circuit court held by judges of the High Court. Commissioners of justiciary: see quot. 1846.

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[1318:  see JUSTICIAR 2 b.].

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1473.  in Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. (1877), I. 68. Item gevin to the Justice Schire Dauid Guthere of that Ilk, knycht, for his fee of this ȝere of his office of Justiciary: je łi.

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1491.  Sc. Acts Jas. IV. (1597), § 43. The Clerke of the Iusticiarie sall take dittay therevpon, and they to be punished as oppressoures.

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1579.  Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1597), § 86. To that effect [our soueraine Lord] … grantis and givis to them power and commission of Iusticiarie.

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1746–7.  Act 20 Geo. II., c. 43 § 1. That all Heretable Jurisdictions of Justiciary… within that part of Great Britain called Scotland … shall be … abrogated.

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1752.  Scots Mag. (1753), Oct., 493/1. The circuit-courts of justiciary.

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1752.  J. Louthian, Form of Process (ed. 2), 6. The five Lords … are called Commissioners of Justiciary, and are invested with an equal Power and Jurisdiction in all Criminal Causes.

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1846.  M’Culloch, Acc. Brit. Empire (1854), II. 223. The Court of Justiciary … consists of five judges, who are also judges of the Court of Session, specially commissioned by the sovereign, together with the justice-general and justice-clerk.

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  attrib.  1819.  R. Chapman, Jas. V., 128. To put an end to those disorders, the king established a justiciary court at Jedburgh.

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1844.  Ld. Brougham, Brit. Const., xix. § 6 (1862), 367. The distinction of justiciary, session, and jury judges is done away.

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  2.  Judicature.

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1869.  Draper, Amer. Civ. War, I. xxvi. § 6. 445. Already has that [non-slaveholding] power reduced the supreme justiciary to a mere temporary bulwark.

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