Parlements were judicial organizations consisting of a dozen or more appellate judges, or about 1,100 judges nationwide. They were the courts of final appeal of the judicial system, and typically wielded …

Parlement, the supreme court under the ancien régime in France. It developed out of the Curia Regis (King’s Court), in which the early kings of the Capetian dynasty (987–1328) periodically convened …

Dec 10, 2025 · (legislative body): Semantic loan from Middle English parlement (“parliament”) in the 14th century following the example of the Parliament of England; itself a borrowing from Old French.

Parlement: Created by Noé Debré. With Xavier Lacaille, Liz Kingsman, William Nadylam, Georgia Scalliet. Samy, a young European parliamentary assistant arrives in Brussels a few weeks after the …

Definition of 'parlement' parlement in British English (ˈpɑːləmənt ) noun another name for parliament (sense 3)

While both the modern French term parlement (for the legislature) and the English word parliament derive from this French term, the Ancien Régime parlements were not legislative bodies and the …

A parlement was a court of appeals in the Kingdom of France. The first parlement originated in the 1200s during the reign of King Louis IX, who appointed nobles from his court to staff the...