• capacity, the schepenen were often referred to as the schepenbank. One of the functions of the schepenbank was to pass judgment on criminals, thereby functioning...
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    Mill became a village with its own schepenbank (municipal council and lower court). The seal of the schepenbank displayed the image of Willibrord, which...
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    Scheldt, the adjacent river. The house Het Steen was later used as the "schepenbank" (Alderman's house or city hall) and "vierschaar" (court of justice)...
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    independent estate with its own 'schepenbank'. This was chaired by the landdrost of the east quarter of Bergen op Zoom. The 'schepenbank' had the high jurisdiction...
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    designate as of now their own governor. Eersel became the head of regional schepenbank of Hapert, Hoogeloon, Vessem, Knegsel, Steensel, Bergeijk, Westerhoven...
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    broadcast live on Dutch television. St. Lambertuskerk, Oirsbeek Fatima cave schepenbank (predecessor of the town hall) House in Oirsbeek "Kerncijfers wijken...
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    courthouse consisted of a square of four benches facing inwards known as a schepenbank, on which the provincial or city shepenen would sit, facing the litigants...
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    Indies. After returning to Batavia, in 1787, he became President of the Schepenbank (the Bench of Aldermen, dealing with local administration), as well as...
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    charge of estate boundaries, roads, etc.). He was later a member of the "Schepenbank" (the local government and court in Batavia), a Regent (a board member)...
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