parlement: Judges
Judges
Composed at first of bourgeois judges who obtained vacant seats by election or cooptation, the law courts increasingly became strongholds of a hereditary caste of magistrates. As early as the 14th cent. seats were bought, although the
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- Attempts to Abolish the Parlements
- Opposition to Royal Reforms
- Origins
- Duties and Powers
- Judges
- Bibliography
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