Reichskammergericht
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From German Reichskammergericht (“imperial chamber court”).
Proper noun
[edit]Reichskammergericht
- (historical) The imperial appellate court of the Holy Roman Empire, one of the two highest judicial authorities of the empire.
- 1995, Karel Davids, Jan Lucassen, editors, A Miracle Mirrored, page 141:
- The members of the Reichskammergericht were nominated both by the Estates and the emperor.
- 2008, Harald Kleinschmidt, Ruling the Waves, page 245:
- 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.
- 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 123:
- The Peace of Augsburg charged the Reichskammergericht with resolving any disputes by entrusting cases to bipartisan panels composed equally of Lutheran and Catholic judges.
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Reich + -s- + Kammergericht.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Reichskammergericht n (strong, genitive Reichskammergerichts, no plural)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Reichskammergericht [sg-only, neuter, strong]
Further reading
[edit]- “Reichskammergericht” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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