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A genus of liliaceous plants of which the crown imperial Fritillaria imperialis is one species and the Guinea hen flower F Meleagris another See Crown imperial...
Crown imperial
A spring blooming plant Fritillaria imperialis of the Lily family having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves...
Crown
Crown [fr. Couronne, Fr.; corona, Lat.], an ornamental badge of regal power worn on the head by sovereign princes. The word is frequently used when speaking of the sovereign himself, or the rights, duties, and prerogatives belonging to him.The Act of Supremacy (English) (1 Eliz. C. 1), 'restoring to the Crown the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesistical and Spiritual and abolishing all Foreign Power repugnant to the same,' after repealing 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 8, reviving the Foreign Citations Act,the Act of Appeals, Abolition of Annates Act, the Act of Submission, the Confirmation of Bishops Act, the Archiepiscopal Licenses Act (23 Hen. 8, Contract Act, 1872 '. 9, 20; 24 Hen. 8, c. 12 l 25 Hen. 8, Contract Act, 1872 -. 19-21; 26 Hen. 8, c. 14; 28 Hen. 8, c. 16), and also repealing 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 6 (see HERESY), enacted that-Such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities and pre-eminences spiritual and ecclesiastical as by any spiritualor ecclesiastical power or authority hath her...
Supremacy, Act of
Supremacy, Act of (1 Eliz. c. 1), by which supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction was 'for ever' united to the imperial Crown. See CROWN....
Colony
Colony [fr. colo, Lat., to cultivate], a settlement in a foreign country possessed and cultivated, either wholly or partially, by immigrants and their descendants, who have a political connection with and subordination to the mother-country whence they emigrated. In other words, it is a place peopled from some more ancient city or country.England was not the first among European nations that planted settlements in parts beyond Europe. But by her own colonization, and by the conquests of the settlements of other nations, she was now acquired a more extensive dominion of colonies and dependencies than any other nation. The colonies of Great Britain exceed in number, extent, and value those of every other country.In an Act of Parliament (English) passed after 1889 the expression 'colony' means by s. 18(3), of the Interpretation Act, 1889, 'any part of her Majesty's dominions, exclusive of the British Islands and of British India, and where parts of such dominions are under both a central ...
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland, that part of Ireland other than the Irish Free State. By the Government of Ireland Act, 1926, s. 1, Northern Ireland consists of six counties: Antrim, Armagh; Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone, including boroughs of Belfast ad Londonderry, with (1) a representation of 13 members (including one from the Queen's University of Belfast) in the Parliament of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland (see IMPERIAL Parliament), and (2) a Parliament of Northern Ireland, consisting of the King, a Senate and a House of Commons. The supreme authority of the Imperial Parliament is preserved. The Royal Assent is given to Bills by the Governor of Northern Ireland. The Senate consists of 24 members, 22 elected by the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, and 2 (as ex-officio members), the Lord Mayor of Belfast and the Mayor of Londonderry. The House of Commons consists of 52 members. Certain legislative powers are reserved for the Imperial Parliament; see ss. 4 et seq. Of the A...
Alien
Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens were subject to very many disqualifications, the nature of which is shown by the (English) Act of 1844, 7 & 8 Vict. c. 66, which greatly relaxed the law in their favour. It provided, inter alia, that every person born of a British mother should be capable of holding real or personal estate; that alien friends might hold every species of personal property except chattels real; that subjects of a friendly power might hold lands, etc., for the purposes of residence or business for a term not exceeding twenty-one years; and it also provided for aliens becoming naturalized.Alien, (UK) is a person who is neither a Common-wealth citizen nor a British protected person nor a citizen of the Republic of Ireland. Aliens therefore include both persons having the nationality ...
Man, Isle of
Man, Isle of (Mona), in the Irish Sea, off the coast of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, granted by Henry the Fourth and James the First to members of the Stanley family, whose successor in the female line, the Duke of Athol, sold it to the Crown for 70,000l., being about ten years' purchase of the annual revenue, by the Isle of Man Purchase Act, 1765 (5 Geo. 3, c. 26).The Isle of Man is not subject to British Acts of Parliament unless expressly named therein (as in the Customs Acts, for the purposes of which, by s. 277 of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, it is deemed part of the United Kingdom), being legislated for by its own Parliament, called the House of Keys, but an Isle of Man (Customs) Act, is passed every year by the Imperial Parliament....
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