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Home Dictionary Name: chancellorVice-Chancellors in Equity
Vice-Chancellors in Equity. The first Vice-Chancellor (Sir Thomas Plumer) was appointed by 53 Geo. 3, c. 24, and two more by 5 Vict. c. 5, s. 19. One of them was at one time called Vice-Chancellor of England, the last who bore that title being Sir Lancelot Shadwell. Each Vice-Chancellor st separately from the Lord Chancellor and lords justices, to whom an appeal lay from his decisions. See 14 & 15 Vict. c. 4, and 15 & 16 Vict. c. 80, ss. 52-58. They became judges of the High Court of Justice (Jud. Act, 1873, s. 5), retaining their titles, but it was enacted that on the death or retirement of any one of them, his successor should be styled a judge of the High Court (ibid.). Vice-Chancellor Bacon (1870 to 1886) was the last of them. For a complete list of the Equity judges since 1660, see Seton on Judgements. There is also a Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lanca....
Chancellor, Lord
Chancellor, Lord, properly, 'the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain' [fr. Cancellarius, low Lat., cancelli, Lat., latticework], the highest judicial functionary in the kingdom, and superior, in point of precedency, to every temporal lord. He is appointed by the delivery of the king's Great Seal into his custody. He may not be a Roman Catholic (10 Geo. 4, c. 7, s. 12). He is a cabinet minister, a privy councillor, and prolocutor of the House of Lords by prescription (but not necessarily, though usually, a peer of the realm), and vacates his office with the ministry by which he was appointed, but is entitled to a pension. When royal commissions are issued for opening the session, for giving the royal assent to bills, or for proroguing Parliament, the Lord Chancellor is always one of the commissioners, and reads the royal speech on the occasion. To him belongs the appointment of all justices of the peace throughout the kingdom, and the appointment and removal of county court judges (se...
Chancellors of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
Chancellors of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the titular heads of those bodies, the office being honorary.The Chancellor of the University of Oxford, by virtue of certain ancient charters confirmed by statute, enjoys the sole jurisdiction (in exclusion of the King Courts) when a scholar or privileged person is the defendant, over all civil actions and suits whatsoever, excepting where a right of freehold is concerned, and of all injuries and trespasses against the peace, mayhem and felony excepted, Brown v. Renouard, (1810) 12 East 12; Thornton v. Ford, (1812) 15 East 634; Ginnett v. Whittingham, (1886) 16 QBD 761; and these he is at liberty to try and determine, either according to the Common Law of the land, or according to the University Statutes and customs, at his discretion. The judge of the Chancellor's Court at Oxford is the Vice-Chancellor, or his deputy. By 5 & 26 Vict. c. 26, amending 17 & 18 Vict. c. 81, s. 45, the Court of the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford is now g...
vice-chancellor
vice-chancellor 1 : an officer ranking next below a chancellor and serving as deputy 2 : a judge appointed to act for or to assist a chancellor ...
Vice-Chancellor
Vice-Chancellor [fr. vice-cancellarius, Lat.] a sub-chancellor.A judge appointed to act for chancellor, esp in chancery court, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
chancellor
chancellor [Old French chancelier royal secretary, from Late Latin cancellarius doorkeeper, clerk, from Latin cancellus latticework barrier] 1 : the head of a chancery: as a : the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain b : a judge in a court of equity in various states 2 a : a university president b : the chief executive officer in some state systems of higher education 3 : the chief minister of state in some European countries (as Germany) ...
Lord Chancellor
Lord Chancellor. See CHANCELLOR....
Lord Chancellor
Lord Chancellor : an official in the British judicial system whose duties include heading the Chancery Division and presiding over the Supreme Court of Judicature and the House of Lords in its judicial capacity ...
Chancellor of a Cathedral
Chancellor of a Cathedral, one of the quatuor person', or four chief dignitaries, of the Cathedrals of the Old Foundations. The duties assigned to the office by the statutes of the different chapters vary; but they are chiefly of an educational character, with special reference to the cultivation of theology....
Chancellor of a Diocese, or of a Bishop
Chancellor of a Diocese, or of a Bishop, a law officer, appointed to hold the Bishop's Court in his diocese, and to adjudicate upon matters of ecclesiastical law. He is the vicar-general of the bishop, and by Canon 127 must be at least 26 years old, must be learned in the Civil and Ecclesiastical Laws, must be at least a Master of Arts or Bachelor of Law, and 'reasonably well practised in the course thereof, as likewise well affected, and zealous bent to religion, touching whose life and manners no evil example is had.' By the same canon, he must take the Oath of Supremacy and subscribe the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion (see that title)....
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