Nobile Officium, the term used in the law of Scotland to denote the high prerogative right of the Court of Session to exercise jurisdiction in certain cases—as, for example, to appoint a judicial factor to young children or to lunatics.
Nobile Officium
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 511
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