How to pronounce “oyer and terminer”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (law, archaic) A commission under which a court is empowered to hear and determine a criminal case.
• (law, archaic) The hearing or trial carried out under such authority.

Practice Nearby Words

committing magistrate, judicial officer, ermine, commission, array, commissioner, court, commissary, foreman, court of inquiry, parquet, audiencier, quaestio, commissionee, executry, judicatory, justiciary, jurat, judge advocate, chapiter, tribunal, apparitor, county court, bench, qualificator, commissaire, commissionaire, magistrate, recognitor, magistrature, subordinate court, inquirendo, court martial, justice, subcommission, court-baron, justiciar, parole officer, officer of the court, charter court, high court, bailiff, judge, jury and executioner, lower court, coroner, commissionary, master, commissionnaire, umpirage, audiencia, judicature, court marshal, bencher, crown, prosecution, chancellor, coronership, prosecutorship, iudge, magistrates' court, commish, court-martial, commissionership, subcommissioner, superintending control, high bailiff, judge, plenary court, taxing master, courtmartial, commissionship, crown court, quinquevir, judg, prosecuting attorney, pursuivant, ordinary, apposer, commissionerate, executor, lawman, inquisitorial system, commissioned officer, police magistrate, summoner, sheriffdom, superior court, apparator, procuracy, leetman, umpire, returning officer, admiralty, probation officer, penitentiary, utter barrister, elisor, executorship

Similar Sounds

underminer, undermine, undermines, untermensch, sunderman, sundowner, sand tumor, sergeant major, sergeant at arms, socket wrench