Justiciar
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
JUSTICIER.
In Old English Law. A Judge or Justice. Baker, fol. 118; Mon, Angl. One of several persons learned in the law, who sat in the aula regia, and formed a kind of court of appeal in cases of difficulty., presided over the whole owria^ regie, who was the principal minister of state, the second man in the kingdom, and by virtue of his office, guardian of the realm in the king’s absence.
3 Bla. Com. 87; Spelman, Gloss. 330; 2 Hawk. PI. Or. 6.
The last who bore this title was Philip Bas^t, in the time of Hen. III. After 1234, the office fell into abeyance; Harcourt, Lord Steward 116. The powers of the office went to the chief Justice of the King’s Bench and the steward of the household.
Id. 128, See also 2 Sel. Essays in Anglo-Amer. L. H. 213.
JUSTICIARII ITINERANTES (Lat). Justices in eyre (q. v.). JUSTICIARII RESIDENTES (Lat). Justices or judges who usually resided in Westminster: they were so called to distinguish them from justices in eyre.
Co. Litt, 293.