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MIXTUM IMPERIUM Definition & Legal Meaning

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Lat. In old English law. Mixed authority; a kind of civil power. A term applied by Lord Hale to the “power” of certain subordinate civil magistrates as distinct from “jurisdiction.” Hale, Anal.

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