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CONSERVATOR ( See also: guardian or custodian
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In the See also: middle ages the title of conservator was given to various See also: officers, such as those appointed by the council of Wiirzburg in 1287 to protect the privileges of certain religious persons, the guardians of See also: academic rights in the university of See also: Paris, certain See also: Roman magistrates as See also: late as the 16th century; or the conservator Judaeorum who was enjoined to look after the Jews of the county of See also: Provence in 1424
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By the 2 See also: Henry V. there was appointed a' conservator of truce and safe conducts in each
See also: English seaport " to enquire of all offences done against the See also: king's truce and safe conducts, upon the
See also: main See also: sea, out of the liberties of the cinque ports." In Scotland the conservator of the See also: realm (c
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1503) had jurisdiction to See also: settle the disputes and protect the rights of Scottish merchants in See also: foreign ports or places of See also: trade
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In See also: England the conservators of the See also: peace (custodes pacis) were the precursors of the See also: modern justices of the peace
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Stubbs traces their origin to the See also: assignment of knights, in 1195, to enforce the See also: oath to preserve the peace which See also: Richard I. ordered to be taken by all persons above the age of 15
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By the 1 See also: Edward III. conservators of the peace were appointed for each county to guard the peace and to hear and determine felonies
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The office was reconstituted by the parliament of 1327, and its See also: powers were extended in 1360
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From the See also: sovereign and the See also: lord chancellor down to the See also: justice and the See also: village See also: constable, all who have to do with the repression of See also: crime are included within the general See also: term of conservators of the peace
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As commonly used nowadays in England, the term conservator is applied only to the guardian of a museum or of a See also: river (see See also: THAMES)
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