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A Master of Requests (in French maître des requêtes) is a Counsel of the Council of State ( Conseil d'État), a high-level judicial officer of administrative law in France and other European countries that has existed in one form or another since the Middle Ages.
The occupational title derives from two words. In jurisprudence and administration, the French term Maître is an honorific for a barrister (a lawyer who acts in proceedings before a court of law), and requêtes are " appeals" or " petitions". (The legal term une requête civile is "a petition to an appellate court against a judgement.")
Master of Requests may refer to:
- Master of Requests (England), judges that succeeded the medieval Lord Privy Seal presiding over the Renaissance Court of Requests
- Master of Requests (France), mid-ranking office holder of the Conseil d'Etat
- Master of Requests (Scotland), advisory position to the executive until 1592; sifted petitions referred to the Privy Council of Scotland
- List of Masters of Requests (a chronological list of English and Scottish Masters of Requests)
Usage examples of "master of requests".
A Master of Requests, named Falhonet, together with the Abbe Clement, and two clerks in their employ, had been concerned in divers acts of peculation, to the amount of upwards of a million of livres.
Vandeness, Master of Requests, and His Majesty's private secretary.