Scholarly study of the Ottoman grandee household has tended to concentrate on the political functions of this organization, especially as it developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In that period grandee households provided the necessary administrative agency for perpetuating dynastic state authority just when the political institutions of the “classical” sixteenth-century imperial state were faced with serious challenges. An understudied question is to what extent grandee households correspondingly expanded their judicial functions as well. This paper addresses the question with a comparison of two grandee households, that of Murtaza Pasha, governor of Aleppo province in the years 1658-60, and of Ökuz Ömer Pasha, governor of Diyarbakir in 1670-71. Making use of income registers (sing. irad defteri), which provide a wealth of detail on household operations, the paper surveys the range of crimes investigated by members of the governors’ households – from homicide and personal injury to property damage -- and the fines that they assessed and collected as punishment. The distribution of these duties among household members and client agents will be examined in depth. Because the chief judges of provincial capitals were responsible for checking the powers of the governor, this paper will also make use of local law court records (sijillat) with the aim of identifying general patterns in the coordination or contestation between the governor’s council (divan) and the law court. Local biographical dictionaries where available will also provide significant information on the social context of the judicial process and the political history of the cities. In sum, this study will contribute not only to the history of grandee households but also to the study of law, both Shari’a and Kanun, as they were applied in Ottoman society in a period of political transition.