DCHP-3

pacificator justice

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in Lower Canada, an unofficial arbitrator working outside the constituted authority during the political unrest of the 1830's.

Quotations

1840
. . . an organization was formed of pacificator justices, to compose differences without recourse to the constituted authorities, and in whose decisions all true patriots were required to acquiesce.