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Viscount, Or Vicount

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Viscount, or Vicount [fr. vicecomes, Lat.], an arbitrary title of honour, without any office pertaining to it, created by Henry VI, 2 Inst. 5. See Barr. on Stat. 409. A peer of the fourth order, between earl and baron, 2 Steph. Com.

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