- dozen peers
- /dazan pirz/ Twelve peers assembled at the instance of the barons, in the reign of Henry III, to be privy counselors, or rather conservators of the kingdom
Black's law dictionary. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A.. 1990.
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