royal jurisdiction

And it set up a network of power that was outside royal jurisdiction.

They were the representatives of the royal jurisdiction over a town and its district.

We have noted how royal jurisdiction invaded the seigniorial courts.

The Act put an end to this by extending universal royal jurisdiction throughout Scotland.

During the Middle Ages two knights were elected for each of the 37 counties under royal jurisdiction.

Champagne is now under royal jurisdiction.

Asco was within the royal jurisdiction of Corte.

The person enjoying such liberal delegation of royal jurisdiction was known as a Count and the territory over which he ruled was called a county.

The Norman forests were subject to special royal jurisdiction; forest law was "harsh and arbitrary, a matter purely for the King's will".

The "crosslands" owned by the church (whether the diocese or a religious order) were exempted from each such grant and remained under royal jurisdiction.

By the 1500's, printing was firmly in the royal jurisdiction, and printing was restricted only to English subjects.

From that moment on, royal jurisdiction involved nomination of a governor, intendant and sovereign council to ensure the smooth functioning of the colony.

According to the statute, cities under royal jurisdiction were forbidden to protect serfs originally owned by the regional princes or their vassals.

In 1217 the Charter of the Forest was passed, in part to mitigate the worst excesses of royal jurisdiction.

These Acts sought to demonstrate that establishing royal jurisdiction over the Church would ensure progress in "religious reformation" where papal authority had been insufficient.

With estates scattered across the country and freedom from episcopal and royal jurisdiction, its mitred abbot was one of the great barons of England.

He was appointed Assessor of the Royal Jurisdiction of Ajaccio and the neighbouring districts on 20 September 1769.

In 1708, his widow married Jacques-Alexis de Fleury Deschambault, lieutenant-general of the royal jurisdiction of Montreal.

Bernard of Clairvaux wrote to Honorius asking him to intervene on behalf of both men and support church independence over the claims of royal jurisdiction and interference.

These privileges guaranteed that they could maintain communal autonomy, live according to their laws, and be subjected directly to the royal jurisdiction in matters concerning Jews and Christians.

Keeping the peace in the realm and the extension of royal jurisdiction to cover rape was dealt with in the statutes from 1285, along with a number of other issues.

Later two counties long seen as outside royal jurisdiction, the county palatines of Chester and Durham, were also able to return two members each to Parliament, from 1543 and 1673 respectively.

Not only was secular service not due but in the 12th and 13th centuries jurisdiction over land so held belonged to the ecclesiastical courts, and was thus immune from royal jurisdiction.

In addition, Philip IV extended royal jurisdiction by treaty into the ecclesiastical territories of Vivers, Cahors, Mende, and Le Puy.

January - Henry II enacts the Constitutions of Clarendon (at Clarendon Palace in Wiltshire) in an attempt to attempt to restore royal jurisdiction over the Church.