aforamiento

Spanish

Etymology

From aforar +‎ -miento.

Noun

aforamiento m (plural aforamientos)

1. (Spain, law) a political immunity in which certain people, especially those with high political power, are judged by the Supreme Court of Spain and the High Courts of Justice of Spain instead of by a regular court

Related terms

• aforado

 

Further reading

• “aforamiento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28