LICTOR

By SovConn | June 15, 2013

lictor (lik-t<<schwa>>r), n.[Latin] Roman law. An officer who accompanied a magistrate having imperium and traditionally carried a bundle of rods and an ax, symbolizing the magistrate’s powers of life and death and of corporal punishment over citizens. See IMPERIUM.
[Blacks Law 8th]

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