The presidial courts (french: présidiaux; singular ) were judicial courts of the
Kingdom of France set up in January 1551 by
Henry II of France with jurisdiction between the ''
parlement
A ''parlement'' (), under the French Ancien Régime, was a provincial appellate court of the Kingdom of France. In 1789, France had 13 parlements, the oldest and most important of which was the Parlement of Paris. While both the modern Fre ...
s'' and the bailiwicks.
They were suppressed by a decree of the
National Constituent Assembly in 1790.
References
Legal history of the Ancien Régime
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