court of the lord high steward

Court of the Lord High Steward. Hist. A court commissioned to try a peer indicted for treason or a felony. • The Court met only if the House of Lords was not in session. The Lord High Steward sat as a judge and decided questions of law, and the peers decided facts only. The Court last sat in 1688.

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