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Ambassador [legatus, Lat.], a representative minister sent by one sovereign power to another, with authority conferred on him by letters of credence to treat on affairs of state, 4 Inst. 153. Ambassadors are either ordinary, who reside in the place whither they are sent; or extraordinary, who are employed upon special matters. An ambassador during the period of his residence here is entirely exempt from the jurisdiction of the courts of this country, Magdalena Steam Navigation Co. v. Martin, (1859) 2 E&E 94; Musurus Bey v. Godban, 1894 (2) QB 352). Ambassadors and their domestic servants are protected from civil arrest and their goods from seizure under distress or execution by the (English) Diplomatic Privileges Act, 1708 (7 Anne, c. 12), which is declaratory of the Common Law, but imposes severe penalties, including corporal punishment, on persons violating its provisions. The King can veto the appointment of an ambassador, and this constitutional right was last exercised by William ...
ambassador
ambassador A public officer clothed with high diplomatic powers, commissioned by a government to transact the international business of his government with a foreign government. Source: FindLaw ...
Embassy
The public function of an ambassador the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys a public message to foreign court concerning state affairs hence any solemn message...
Embassage, or Embassy
Embassage, or Embassy, the message or commission given by a sovereign or state to a minister, called an ambassador, empowered to treat or communicate with another sovereign or state; also the establishment of an ambassador....
Leger, Leiger, or Ledger
Leger, Leiger, or Ledger [fr. legger, Dut., to lie], anything that lies in a place; as, a leger-book, a book that lies in a counting-house; leger-ambassador, a resident ambassador....
Declaration of war
Declaration of war. The formal announcement by one nation of an intention to treat another nation as an enemy and to commence hostilities, agreed to be necessary by the Hague Convention, 1907. In modern times the future belligerents, generally, are in a state of war before any declaration of war is made. Before this Convention was signed, in the war between Russia and Japan, the Japanese ambassador, on the 6th February, 1904, notified to Russia the rupture of negotiations and the cessation of diplomatic relations, hostile operations were commenced by Japan on the 8th February, and formal declarations of war were not made until the 10th of February by Japan, and 11th February by Russia. The British Declaration of War on Germany was made on the 4th August, 1914, after an ultimatum.The force of a declaration of war is equal to that of an Act of Parliament prohibiting intercourse with the enemy except by the king's license. As an act of State done by virtue of the prerogative it carries wi...
Vackeel, Vakeel, Vaqueel
Vackeel, Vakeel, Vaqueel, one endowed with authority to act for another; ambassador; agent sent on a special commission, or residing at a Court; also a native law pleader or attorney, Indian....
Security for costs
Security for costs. In certain cases a plaintiff, before proceeding with his action, may be required to give security for the costs of it. The principal cases in which security may be required are the following: (1) Where the plaintiff is resident abroad, but if he resides in Scotland or Northern Ireland security will not be required: aliter, in the Irish Free State, Wakely v. Triumph Cycle Co., 40 TLR 15 (CA); (2) where he mis-describes his residence, or is keeping out of the way; (3) where he is only a nominal plaintiff and is insolvent; (4) where he is a privileged person, e.g., an ambassador's servant; (5) where the plaintiff is a limited company ((English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 371). But security cannot be required from a plaintiff on the mre ground of poverty or insolvency; or from a defendant, unless by reason of a counterclaim he is really in the position of a plaintiff; or from a person compelled to litigate. Security for costs may extend as well to past as future costs.The ...
Roman Catholics
Roman Catholics. Very severe laws, commonly called the penal laws, were passed against Roman Catholics, generally under the name of Papists (see that title), after the Reformation, an Act of Elizabeth, for instance, 13 Eliz. c. 2, punishing with the penalties of a pr'munire (see that title) any person bringing into this country any Agnus Dei, cross, picture, etc., from Rome; an Act of James, 3 Jac. 1, c. 5, penalizing the sale or purchase of Popish primers; and an Act of William and Mary (11 & 12 Wm. 3, c. 4), punishing any Papist assuming the education of youth with imprisonment for life. Exclusion from Parliament was effected by the requirement of the Declaration against Trans-ubstantiation (see TRANSUBSTANT- IATION) from members of either House by 30 Car. 2, s. 2, and disfranchisement by the requirements of the Oath of Supremacy by 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 27, s. 19; while 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 24, effected (until 1791) exclusion from the profession of barrister, attorney, or solicitor by requirin...
Resident
Resident, an agent, minister, of officer residing in any distant place with the dignity of an ambassador; the chief representative of the government at certain native states in India. residents are a class of public ministers inferior to ambassadors and envoys; but, like them, they are under the protection of the law of nations.Also, a tenant, who was obliged to reside on his lord's land, and not to depart from the same; called also homme levant et couchant, and in Normandy, resseant du fief, Leg. H. I.A person who has a residence in a particular place, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1311....
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