customary law jurisdictions), until the king held a lit de justice or sent a lettre de jussion to force them to act. By the 16th century, the parlement...

Catherine de' Medici. He was also in April attempting to drive the Ordinance of Orléans through the Parlement, issuing lettres de jussion to command...

represented them as so important, that the Chambre, notwithstanding the fr:Lettre de jussion ("letters patent") obtained by the said Forcade, and without referring...