Reichskammergericht

proper noun

The imperial appellate court of the Holy Roman Empire, one of the two highest judicial authorities of the empire.

OriginGerman Reichskammergericht →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. historicalThe imperial appellate court of the Holy Roman Empire, one of the two highest judicial authorities of the empire.

    The members of the Reichskammergericht were nominated both by the Estates and the emperor.

    1995, Karel Davids, Jan Lucassen, editors, A Miracle Mirrored, page 141
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    Likewise, it took a while before the Imperial Court of Law, the Reichskammergericht, established its permanent headquarters in the German city of Wetzlar in 1693.

    2008, Harald Kleinschmidt, Ruling the Waves, page 245

    The Peace of Augsburg charged the Reichskammergericht with resolving any disputes by entrusting cases to bipartisan panels composed equally of Lutheran and Catholic judges.

    2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 123

Origin

  1. GermanReichskammergericht“imperial chamber court”
  2. EnglishReichskammergericht

From German Reichskammergericht (“imperial chamber court”).

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