High, middle and low justice
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High, middle and low justices is a distinction drawn to describe descending degrees of judicial power to administer justice by the maximal punishment the holders could inflict upon their subjects and
Hand of justice displayed at the Louvre, Paris
Sword of justice
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A sword of justice is a ceremonial sword that is used to signify a monarch's supreme judicial power. In some cases, this may have been an executioner's sword that was no longer used for executions, be
High, middle and low justice
…authority and included capital punishment in territories that permit it. It was held by a sovereign and commonly symbolized by regalia including the sword of justice and hand of justice. In the early Holy Roman Empire, high justice was reserved to the king. In the 13th century, it was transferred to the king's vassals…
A sword-wielding allegory of justice, painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder in 1537