Favouritism - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Favouritism, means a deposition to show, or the practice of showing favour, or partiality to an individual or class, to neglect of others having equal or superior claims, under preference (Oxford English Dictionary)Means showing favour in matter of selection on circumstances other than merits, [Law Lexicon by P. Ramanatha Aiyar, 3rd Edn., 2005]...
Legate
Legate, a deputy, an ambassador, the Pope's nuncio.There are three kinds:-(1) Legates a latere, being such as the Pope commissions to take his place in councils, and so called, because he never gives this office to any but his favourites and confidants, who are always a latere-at his side. (2) Legates de latee or legati dati, those entrusted with apostolical legation, and acting under a special commission. (3) Legates by office, or legati nati, those that were legates by virtue of their offices, as, in England, the Archbishop of Canterbury informer times, Encyc. Londin....
Lords of Erection
Lords of Erection. On the Reformation in Scotland, the king, as proprietor of benefices formerly held by abbots and priors, gave them out in temporal lordships to favourites, who were termed Lords of Erection....
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