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Armour and arms
Armour and arms are understood in Law to mean things (see preceding title) which a person wears for defence, or takes in hand, or uses in anger, to strike or cast at another. Arms are also insignia, i.e., ensigns of honour, originally badges assumed by commanders in war and painted on their shields to distinguish them, since they could not be distinguished by the ancient coat of mail which covered the whole body. King Richard I., during his crusade, first made arms hereditary. Every subject in this realm has a right to carry arms for defence suitable to his condition and degree, and allowed by law, and this right is embodied in the Bill of Rights, 1 W. & M. c. 2, s. 2. The Statute of Northampton, 2 Edw. 3, c. 3, prohibits persons going armed under circumstances which may tend to terrify the people or indicate any intention of disturbing the public peace, see R. v. Meade, (1903) 19 TLR 540. The (English) Unlawful Drilling Act, 1819 (60 Geo. 3, c. 1), prohibits the training of persons wi...
Armoured car service
Armoured car service, means the service provided by deployment of armed guards along with armoured car and such other related services which may be notified by the Central Government or as the case may be, the State Government from time to time. [Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2005 (29 of 2005), s. 2(a)].Armoured car service, mean the service provided by deployment of armed guards alongwith armoured car and such other related service which may be notified by the Central Government or as the case may be, the State Government from time to time. [The Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2005, s. 2(a)]...
Coat armour
Coat armour. Coats of arms were introduced by Richard I., from the Holy Lond, where they were first invented. Originally they were painted on the shields of the Christian knights, who went to the Holy Land during the crusades, for the purpose of identifying them, some such contrivance being necessary in order to distinguish knights when clad in armour from one another, Bl. Com. 306'...
Chivalry, Court of
Chivalry, Court of, anciently held as a Court of honour merely, before the Earl-Marshal, and as a criminal Court before the Lord High Constable, jointly with the Earl-Marshal. It had jurisdiction as to contracts and other matters touching deeds of arms or war, as well as pleas of life or member. It also corrected encroachments in matters of coat-armour, precedency, and other distinctions of families. It has long grown entirely out of use. See 3 Bl. Com. 68, 103; 13 Ric. 2, c. 2....
Esquire
Esquire [fr. escuyer, Fr.; scutum, Lat.; Gk., hide of which shields were made and afterwards covered], he who attended a knight in time of war, and carried his shield; whence he was called escuyer, in French, and scutifer or armiger, i.e., armour-bearer, in Latin. No estate, however large, conferred this rank upon its owner.Esquires may be divided into five classes:(I) The younger sons of peers and their eldest sons in perpetual succession.(II) The eldest sons of knights and their eldest sons in like successiorr.(III) The chiefs of ancient families are esquires by prescription.(IV) Esquires by creation or office. Such are the heralds and serjeants-at-arms, and some others, who are constituted esquires by receiving a collar of S.S. Judges and other offices of state, justices of the peace, and the higher naval and military officers are designated esquires in their patents and commissions. Doctors in the several faculties, and barristers-at-law, are also esquires. None of these offices co...
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