Definitions For Praemunire

Verb

praemunir (law, historical) To charge with the offence of praemunire; to subject to the penalty, penalties of praemunire.

Alternative forms

præmunire premunire

Noun

PRAEMUNIRE (plural PRAEMUNIREs) (legal, historical) The offence in English law of bringing suit in or obeying a foreign (especially papal) court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the crown. The offence was created by the 1393 (16 w:richard ii of england, richard ii, chapter 5), and abolished by the (chapter 58). (in extended use) Any of a number of criminal offences unrelated to the original offence of praemunire. has subsequently, to use the language of Mr. Serjeant w:william hawkins (serjeant-at-law), hawkins (w:hawkins' treatise of pleas of the crown, pleas of the crown, b. 1, c. 19), ‘been applied to other heinous crimes, for the most part having relation to the offences originally coming under the notion of præmunire, but in some instances not at all.’ The Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. II c. 12) [sic: the (31 Car. II, chapter 2)] contains an instance of the latter mode of application. By the 12th [sic: 11th] section of that act it is made a Præmunire to send any inhabitant of England, Wales, or the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, a prisoner beyond the seas in defiance of its provisions to the contrary. , title=The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon including all his Occasional Works: Namely Letters, Speeches, Tracts, State Papers, Memorials, Devices and all Authentic Writings not already Printed among his Philosophical, Literary, or Professional Works: Newly Collected and Set Forth in Chronological Order with a Commentary Biographical and Historical, location=London, publisher=w:longman, longmans, green, reader, and dyer, year=1869, volume=V, page=385, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=wb0YAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA385, oclc=633982577, passage=The King's Decree touching the granting of Præmunires against any for sueing in Chancery after a Judgment at Common Law. (figurative) crime, crime, offence, wrongdoing. , title2=Thomas Nashe: Pierce Penniless his Supplication to the Devil, Summer’s Last Will and Testament, the Terrors of the Night, the Unfortunate Traveller, and Selected Writings, series2=Stratford-upon-Avon Library, seriesvolume2=1, location2=London, publisher2=w:edward arnold (publisher), edward arnold (publishers) ltd., year2=1964, oclc2=638719383, passage=O Pride, of all heaven-relapsing praemunires the most fearful – thou that ere this had disparadised our first parent, Adam, and unrighteoused the very angels –, how shall I arm mine elocution to break through the ranks of thy hilly stumbling blocks? , year=c. 1640, section=Act I, scene i, lines=65–70, newversion=published in, editor=Anthony Parr, title2=Three Renaissance Travel Plays, location2=Manchester, publisher2=, year2=1995, isbn2=978-0-7190-3746-7, page=225, passage=Then, sir, of officers and men of place, / Whose senses were so numbed they understood not Bribes from due fees, and fell on praemunires, / He has cured divers that can now distinguish / And know both when and how to take of both, / And grow most safely rich by't. The writ charge, charging a person with this offence, the writ of praemunire facias. The penalty for this offence. (figurative) Penalty, punishment.

Etymology

s, in being required to take an oath by judges of the neighbourhood, including Justice Rawlinson (right, hand raised). As Quakers refused to take oaths, they were often charged with the offence of praemunire. This in fact happened to Fox’s wife (shown seated behind him).]] Borrowed from , shortened form of praemunire facias, , that you cause to be forewarned from the opening words of the writ: praemūnīre, , to fortify (defend in advance) (an error for praemoneo, praemonēre, to forewarn) + faciās, , you make.