lagman

See also: Lagman and lagmän

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Swedish lagman. Doublet of lawman.

Noun

lagman (plural lagmans)

1. (historical, law) In medieval Scandinavia and parts of the Danelaw: a district official, magistrate or judge; a lawspeaker.
   • 1788, Allan Maconochie, “Essay on the Origin and Structure of the European Legislatures”, in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, volume I, Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh, Part I, page 23:

     There was a ſucceſſion of thirty-eight lagmans, which continued till 1262, when the republic [the Icelandic Commonwealth] was deſtroyed by the Danes.

2. (Orkney, Shetland, historical, law) The presiding justice of the supreme court; a lawman.

See also

• lawting

Etymology 2

Noun

lagman (usually uncountable, plural lagmans)

1. Alternative form of laghman.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish laghman, from Old Norse lǫgmaðr. By surface analysis, lag +‎ man.

Noun

lagman c

1. a chief judge of a tingsrätt (“district court”) and länsrätt (“county administrative court”)
2. Chief Justice (in Finland, the chief judge of a District Court)
3. a president of a city court (in Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö)
4. a head of division at a court of appeal
5. (historical) lawspeaker, lawman

Declension

Declension of lagman

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	lagman	lagmans
	definite	lagmannen	lagmannens
plural	indefinite	lagmän	lagmäns
	definite	lagmännen	lagmännens

Related terms

• hovrättslagman
• kammarrättslagman