LORDSHIP
Categories: Property
Definition (1910 Edition)
warrant from the signet office, issues the pri seal, which is an authority to the lord chancellor to pass the great seal where the nature of the grant requires it. But the privy seals for money begin in the treasury, whence the first warrant issues, countersigned by the lord treasurer. The lord privy seal is a member of the cabinet council. nc. Lond.—Lord warden of ingue Ports. See CINQUE PoRTs.—Lords appellants, Five peers who for a time superseded Richard II. in his government, and whom, after a brief control of the government, he in turn superseded in 1397, and put the survivors of them to death. Richard II.’s eighteen commissioners (twelve peers and six commoners took their place, as an embryo privy coun acting with full powers, during the parliamentary recess. Brown.—Lords commissioners. In English law. When a high public office in the state, formerly executed by an individual, is put into commission, the persons charged with the commission are called “lords commissioners,” or sometimes “lords” or “commissioners” simply. Thus, we have, in lieu of the lord treasurer and lord high admiral of former times, the lords commissioners of the treasury, and the lords commissioners of the admiralty : and, whenever the erent seal is put into commission, the persons charged with it are called “commissioners” or “lords commissioners” of the great seal. Mozley & Whitley.—Lord’s day. A name sometimes given to Sunday. Co. Litt. 135.—Lords justices of appeal. In English law. The title of the oe ee of the court of appeal, by Jud. Act 1877, § 4. Prior
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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