Royal legislative procedure in the Kingdom of France
For the horse, see Lit de Justice.
In France under the Ancien Régime, the lit de justice (French pronunciation:[lidəʒystis], "bed of justice") was a particular formal session of the Parlement of Paris, under the presidency of the King of France, for the compulsory registration of the royal edicts and to impose his sovereignty. It was named thus because the king would sit on a throne, under a baldachin.[1] In the Middle Ages, not every appearance of the King of France in parlement occasioned a formal lit de justice.
^Jean Rey, Histoire du drapeau, des couleurs et des insignes de la monarchie française, Vol. 2, Paris 1837, p.40
LitdeJustice (January 12, 1990 – July 20, 2012) is an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. He was bred by Robert Sangster's Swettenham Stud and...
were 300 customary law jurisdictions), until the king held a litdejustice or sent a lettre de jussion to force them to act. By the 16th century, the parlement...
manner, and it was by a lettre de cachet (in this case, a lettre de jussipri), or by showing in person in a litdejustice, that the king ordered a parlement...
opening the first litdejustice of his reign at the Palais Royal. From September 1715 until January 1716 he lived in the Château de Vincennes, before...
against this rejection, and Louis XVI had to implement a "bed of justice" (Litdejustice), which automatically registered an edict in the Parlement of Paris...
rank, the position was between the Grand Maître de France and the Grand Écuyer. During a litdejustice, he sat at the king's feet. In the first half of...
inside the medieval royal palace on the Île de la Cité, nowadays still the site of the Paris Hall of Justice. In 1589, Paris was effectively in the hands...
Traditionally, a king could quell a recalcitrant parlement by conducting a litdejustice ceremony, in which he would appear there in person to demand that they...
rivalry to the regency declared by Henry V. The Dauphin was summoned to a lit-dejustice (legal hearing) in 1420 on charges of lèse-majesté. When he failed to...
means: enforcing in many occasions the registration of his reforms via Litdejustice (6 August 1787, 19 November 1787, and 8 May 1788), exiling all Parlement...
on 15 August. It further deteriorated when Louis XVI tried to use a litdejustice on 11 November to impose legislation. The new Duke of Orléans publicly...
château de Rouen then in the palais (which was begun in 1499 and only completed long afterwards). Many kings of France held litsdejustice at the parlement...
their dignity and the date of the creation of their peerage. Except for litdejustice, they were first to give their opinion after the presidents and councilors...
such as protected the feet of the King of France when he presided at a litdejustice. The King of France was also covered by a mobile canopy during his coronation...
Château de Versailles became a national museum. As part of the greater Versailles museum, the room is open to the public. Compare: Litdejustice. Preferring...
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organized by Catholics anxious to defend their religion. The King held a litdejustice in the Parlement of Paris on 14 May to subvert pending opposition in...
the Parlement de Paris refused to register the decree, the king exercised his right to compel registration by conducting a litdejustice. The edict was...
of France Testament Politique du Cardinal Duc de Richelieu, Premier Ministre de France sous le Règne de Louïs XIII "Ancien Régime". Larousse. Jean Bérenger...
Ancient Greek: Θέμις, romanized: Themis, lit. 'justice, law, custom') is the goddess and personification of justice, divine order, law, and custom. She is...
holding litsdejustice, a legal device used to impose the Edict on the individual Parlements and previously used only within the Parlement de Paris. Even...