Trail-Baston
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Justices of trailbaston were justices appointed by King Edward I., during his absence in the Scotch and French wars, about the year 1305. They were so styled, says Ho Uingshed, for trailing or drawing the staff of justice. Their office was to make inquisition, throughout the kingdom, of all officers and others, touching extortion, bribery, and such like grievances of intruders into other men's lands, barrators, robbers, breakers of the peace, and divers other offenders. Caivel; Tondins.