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The Hand of Justice, the second scepter of the kings of France, appeared in the thirteenth century as an instrument used in the coronation of the Capetian kings. Like all regalia, it was immediately used in royal representations. However, this was not the only way in which the Hand of Justice contributed to the assertion of royal sovereignty in the Late Middle Ages, since the Hand of Justice—or “Hand of the King”—also referred to a procedure whose use was refined throughout the fourteenth century, that of judicial sequestration. While the development of this procedure has been well studied by legal historians, this study focuses more specifically on understanding the significance of the emergence and use of the Hand both as a scepter and as a procedure in the practical exercise of royal justice, based on the medieval archives of the Parlement of Paris.