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Justice Hand or Judge Hand may refer to: Augustus C. Hand (1803–1878), justice of the New York Supreme Court, and ex officio a judge of the New York Court of Appeals Augustus Noble Hand (1869–1954), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
A typically French type of sceptre is the Main de Justice (Hand of Justice), which has as its finial an ivory Hand of God in a blessing gesture was recreated in 1804 for Napoleon I . [25] The addition of cameos and other medieval gemstones, like the 12th-century ring of Saint Denis which surrounds the junction of the finial and the replaced rod ...
Sceptrum et Manus Iustitiae (Latin for scepter and hand of justice) was a constellation created by Augustin Royer in 1679 to honor king Louis XIV of France. It was formed from stars of what is today the constellations Lacerta and western Andromeda .
The earliest Roman coins depicted Justitia with the sword in one hand and the scale in the other, but with her eyes uncovered. [8] Justitia was only commonly represented as "blind" since the middle of the 16th century. The first known representation of blind Justice is Hans Gieng's 1543 statue on the Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen (Fountain of Justice ...
Hand of justice displayed at the Louvre, Paris. High justice, also known as ius gladii ("right of the sword") or in German as Blutgerichtsbarkeit, Blutgericht (lit. "blood justice", "blood-court"; [2] sometimes also Halsgericht, lit. "neck-justice", or peinliches Gericht [3]) is the highest penal authority, including capital punishment, as held by a sovereign—the sword of justice and hand of ...
His son Samuel Hand (1834-1886) was an Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and his grandson Learned Hand (1872-1961) was a Senior Judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. State Senator Matthew Hale (1829–1897) was married to his daughter Ellen S. Hand (c.1835–1867).
In 1722, in anticipation of the coronation of Louis XV, cases were made for the Sceptre, the Hand of Justice and the clasp, but the objects, poorly place; shifted during the journey. On arrival it was discovered that the sceptre had been broken and needed urgent repair to be used in the coronation.
The Hand of God, or Manus Dei in Latin, also known as Dextera domini/dei (the "right hand of God"), is a motif in Jewish and Christian art, especially of the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods, when depiction of Yahweh or God the Father as a full human figure was considered unacceptable. The hand, sometimes including a portion of an arm ...