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Earldom, the seigniory of an earl; the title and dignity of an earl.The dignity or jurisdiction of an earl, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 525....
County
An earldom the domain of a count or earl...
Earldom
The jurisdiction of an earl the territorial possessions of an earl...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
Peer
Peer, an equal; one of the same rank; a member of the House of Lords, as either Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, or Baron, or Scots or presumably Irish representative peer, although the status of Irish representative peers is apparently undecided owing to the establishment of the Irish Free State. The king cannot create a dignity with a mesne between baron and baronets (Co. Litt. 16, b, Hargrave note 8).A member of the House of Lords cannot become a member of the House of Commons, nor can be vote at an election to that House, Earr Beauchamp v. Madresfield, (1872) LR 8 CP 245, although an Irish non-representative peer (Lord Rendlesham v. Haward, (1873) LR 9 CP 252); but an Irish non-representative peer may, presumably, be elected a member of the House of Commons for any seat in Great Britain. A peer cannot surrender his dignity to the king so as to affect the rights of his descendants therein (The Norfolk Earldom, 1907, AC 10). See Jac. Law Dict.; Co. Litt. 160.Under the rule, established...
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