Armorial Bearings - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: armorial bearingsArmorial bearings
Armorial bearings, a device depicted on the (now imaginary) shield of one of the nobility, of which gentry is the lowest degree. The criterion of nobility is the bearing of arms, or armorial bearings, received from ancestry. There is nothing, however, to prevent persons assuming arbitrary insignia and armorial bearings; and all persons entitled to bear arms can register their genealogies and families at the Heralds' College, Benet's Hill, London, on payment of a moderate fee, the heralds being the examiners of these matters and the recorders of genealogies. 43 Geo. 3, c. 161, imposed an assessed tax upon armorial bearings, whether borne on plate, carriages, seals, or in any other way. This Act is now replaced by the (English) Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 14), s. 19, by which 'armorial bearings' includes any armorial bearings, crest, or ensign, by whatever name called, and whether registered in the College of Arms or not. This Act, by s. 18, fixes the tax as fo...
Caboched
Showing the full face but nothing of the neck said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing...
Checky
Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures said of the field or of an armorial bearing...
Emblazoning
The act or art of heraldic decoration delineation of armorial bearings...
Excise
In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer levied upon certain specified articles as tobacco ale spirits etc grown or manufactured in the country It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities Certain direct taxes as in England those on carriages servants plate armorial bearings etc are included in the excise Often used adjectively as excise duties excise law excise system...
Assessed taxes
Assessed taxes, properly duties varying with the value of the property on which they are charged, as the property tax, house tax, or land tax; but the term is also applied to the duties charged upon persons in respect of Articles in their use or keeping, as servants, carriages, or armorial bearings....
Local taxation licences
Local taxation licences. Licences to sell intoxicating liquors, etc., to keep dogs, guns, carriage, etc., and to trade as horse dealers, pawnbrokers, etc.; the proceeds of the duties are transferred to county councils for their county funds by s. 20 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888. A full list of the licences is given in Sched. I. of the Act.By s. 6 of the (English) Finance Act, 1908, power is given to levy the duties on certain of these licences, namely, dealing in game, killing game, guns, dogs, armorial bearings, and (formerly) male servants...
Spinster
Spinster, an unmarried woman, so called because she was supposed to be occupied in spinning.In Scotland the wife's or cognate side of the family is termed the 'spindle-side,' in contradistinction to the agnate or husband's side, which is denominated the 'spear' or 'sword-side.' The armorial bearings of the families of widows and spinsters are painted on this spindle, which is popularly termed a lozenge...
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