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Mistres, the proper style of the wife of an esquire or a gentleman...
Qualification Act (English)
Qualification Act (English) (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 25), by which any person not having freehold land of the yearly value of 100l., or for his life or for 99 years or more of the yearly value of 150l. other than the son and heir of an esquire or person of higher degree, or owners of parks or warrens, stocked with deer or conies for their necessary use in respect of the said parks and warrens,' was prohibited from having 'guns, bows, greyhounds, setting-dogs, ferrets, coney-dogs, lurchers, bags, nets, loubels, hare-pipes, gins, snares, or other engines,' for taking game-repealed, with many other Acts, by the Game Act, 1831. See GAME....
Special jury
Special jury, a jury consisting of persons who, in addition to the ordinary qualifications, are of a certain station in society as esquires, bankers, merchants, etc. The Jurors Act, 1870, s. 6, provides that every man whose name shall be on the jurors' book for any county in England or Wales, or for the county of the City of London, and who shall be legally entitled to be called an esquire, or shall be a person of higher degree, or shall be a banker or merchant, or who shall occupy a private dwelling-house rated or assessed to the poor rate, or to the inhabited house duty, on a value of not less than 100l. in a town containing, according to the census then next preceding the preparation of the jury list, 20,000 inhabitants and upwards, or rated or assessed to the poor rate, or to the inhabited house duty, on a value of not less than 50l. elsewhere, or who shall occupy premises other than a farm, rated or assessed as aforesaid on a value of not less than 100l., or a farm rated or assess...
Precedence or precedency
Precedence or precedency, the act or state of going before; adjustment of place.The rules of precedence may be reduced to the following list, in which those marked * are entitled to the rank here allotted them by 31 Hen. 8, c. 10; marked ' by 1 W. & M. c. 1; marked by letters-patent, 9, 10 & 14 Jac. 1, which see in Seld. Tit. of Hon. ii. 5, 46; marked ' by ancient usage and established custom, Camden's Brit., tit. 'Ordines'; Milles's Cat. of Hon. 1610; and Chamberlayne's Prest. St. of Eng., b. 3, c. iii; see 1 Bl. Com. 404.* The King's children and grandchildren.* The King's consort.* The King's uncles.* The King's nephews.* Archbishop of Canterbury (a).* Lord High Chancellor or Keeper, if a baron.* Archbishop of York.Prime Minister.By royal warrant dated December, 1905.* Lord Treasurer.* Lord President of the Council. } barons.* Lord Privy Seal.(a) The judges of assize, while on circuit, take pre-cedence of every subject.*Lord Great Chamberlain.But see Private Stat.1 Geo. 1, c. 3.* Lo...
White-spurs
White-spurs, a kind of esquires....
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