Bed of Justice, a formal session of the Parlement of Paris, under the presidency of the king, for the compulsory registration of the royal edicts, the last session being in 1787, under Louis XVI., at Versailles, whither the whole body, now “refractory, rolled out, in wheeled vehicles, to receive the order of the king.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Becquerel, Antoine Cæsar * Bedchamber, Lords