In order to maintain the peace, he had the legal authority, the right to make "the high, middle and low justice".
They did not have the right of high justice so their political power was limited.
A higher justice may often be achieved without the law taking its toll.
They will administer all justice: high, middle and low.
Soon the town received the right to hold a weekly market and impose high justice.
They were also given the rights of high justice over the village.
Each was a plenum of the low, the middle, and the high justice.
She needed to believe in a power greater than her own, one with a higher justice, and a kinder mercy.
In 1415, the rights to high justice went to Zurich.
To those who fall within his honour he is law, the high justice, the middle and the low.