chief justice vs justiciar

chief justice

noun
  • The senior presiding justice of a court. 

justiciar

noun
  • A justice: a high-ranking judge. 

  • Various equivalent medieval offices elsewhere in Europe. 

  • A Chief Justiciar: the highest political and judicial officer of the Kingdom of England in the 12th and 13th centuries. 

  • A high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England or Scotland. 

  • A justiciary: a believer in the doctrine (or heresy) that adherence to religious law redeems mankind before God. 

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