Coroner
means properly the crown-officer. In Saxon times it was his
duty to collect the Crown revenues; next, to take charge of Crown
pleas; but at present to uphold the paternal solicitude of the Crown by
searching into all cases of sudden or suspicious death. (Vulgo,
crowner; Latin, corona, the crown.)
But is this law?
Ay, marry, is't: crowner's quest law.
Shakespeare: Hamlet, v. 1.
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