Coroner

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.2.2 See also

English

Etymology

IN EVERY COUNTY OF THE KING'S REALM SHALL BE ELECTED THREE KNIGHTS AND ONE CLERK, TO KEEP THE PLEAS OF THE CROWN The keeping of the pleas of the Crown was the source of the title, the original Latin was "custos placitorum coronas" from which the word "coroner" is derived. He was referred to for hundreds of years as "the Crowner" - as in Shakespeare's Hamlet, where derisively it is said "But is this law? Ay, marry, is't crowner's quest law!"

Noun

Coroner (plural Coroners)

1. a public official who presides over an inquest into unnatural deaths.
   • The edict that formally established the Coroners was Article 20 of the "Articles of Eyre" in September 1194.
2. Medical examiner, or ME.

Translations

• Dutch: lijkschouwer m

See also

http://www.britannia.com/history/coroner1.html