King's Peace

King's peace may refer to:

  • a term in Anglo-Saxon law
  • the Queen's peace in contemporary English law
  • Peace of Antalcidas, between Ancient Greek city-states and Persia
  • The King's Peace, a fantasy novel by Jo Walton

Famous quotes containing the words king and/or peace:

    I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    ‘Ye are brothers! ye are men!
    And we conquer but to save:—
    So peace instead of death let us bring:
    Thomas Campbell (1774–1844)