''Dadwar'' (

Middle Persian Middle Persian or Pahlavi, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg () in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire. For some time after the Sasanian collapse, Middle Per ...

: ''Dādwar'', meaning "bearer of law") was a

Sasanian The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Empire of Iranians (, ) and also referred to by historians as the Neo-Persian Empire, was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th-8th centuries AD. Named ...

administrative office which corresponded to a sort of judge, who, as a deputy of the '' mowbed'' (chief priest), evaluated civil cases at a district level. The ''(ham)shahr dadwar'' was the head of the

judiciary The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law ...

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* * {{cite encyclopedia , last = Shaki , first = Mansour , title = Dādwar, Dādwarīh , url = https://iranicaonline.org/articles/dadwar-dadwarih-respectively-judge-administrator-of-justice-lawgiver-lit , year = 1993 , encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. VI, Fasc. 5 , pages = 557–559 Positions of authority Sasanian administrative offices Persian words and phrases