lawspeaker

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An official in Scandinavia whose duties included memorizing laws as well as presiding over, and reciting the laws at, regional Things or the Althing. historical
    — In every legal district there is a lawspeaker, and he has the greatest power among the farmers, because whatever he decides to be the law stands.[…]But whenever there is a conflict in their laws, then the Uppsala laws prevail; and all the other lawspeakers have a lower rank than the one who functions for the Tíundaland.

词形变化

lawspeakers plural

词源

From law + speaker; compare lawman.
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