Jonkheer

Jonkheer

Jonkheer is a Dutch honorific of nobility.-Honorific of nobility:"Jonkheer" or "Jonkvrouw" is literally translated as "young lord" or "young lady". In medieval times such a person was a young and unmarried son or daughter of a high ranking knight or nobleman...

  Pieter Leon van Meeuwen ('s-Hertogenbosch, 1870 - Den Haag, 1921) was a Dutch

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 jurist

Jurist

A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

 and president of the Court in Den Haag.

Jhr. van Meeuwen is a son of jhr. Pieter Maria Frans van Meeuwen

Pieter Maria Frans van Meeuwen

Jonkheer Pieter Maria Frans van Meeuwen , was a Dutch jurist and president of the court of justice. He was a member of the Catholic elite and a member of the lower nobility with the title jonkheer....

 and Elisabeth Julienne Magnée. He was married with Maria Francisca van Lanschot

Van Lanschot

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. Van Meeuwen has studied laws in Leiden. From 1896-1902 he was a lawyer

Lawyer

A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...

 in 's-Hertogenbosch, 1902-1904 was he CEO of the OM

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 in 's-Hertogenbosch and Eindhoven. He was from 1904-1907 judge in Almelo

Almelo

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 and Den Haag (1907–1914). In 1914 was he vicepresident of the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden

Hoge Raad der Nederlanden

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. At 23 November 1918 was he president of the Court in Den Haag and Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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