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Great Seal [clavis regni,Lat.], the emblem of sovereignty, introduced by Edward the Confessor. It is held by the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper for the time being and may not be taken out of the country. By Art. 24 of the Union between England and Scotland (5 Anne, c. 8) it was provided that there should be one Great Seal for the United Kingdom, to be used for sealing writs to summon the Parliament, and for sealing treaties with foreign states and all public acts of state which concern the United Kingdom, and in all other matters relating to England, as the Great Seal of England was then used; and that a seal in Scotland should be kept and made use of in all things relating to private rights or grants, which had usually passed the Great Seal of Scotland, and which only concern offices, grants, commissions, and private right within Scotland. On the Union between Great Britain and Ireland no express provision was made by any of the Articles of the Union as to the establishing one Great S...
Greatness
The state condition or quality of being great as greatness of size greatness of mind power etc...
Great Seal (Offices) Act, 1874
Great Seal (Offices) Act, 1874 (English) (37 & 38Vict. c. 81. This Act makes provision for the abolition of various offices connected with the Great Seal; such as those of the Messenger of the Great Seal, Clerk of the Petty Bag, Clerk f the Patents, and Purse-bearer to the Lord Chancellor....
Session, Great, of Wales
Session, Great, of Wales, a Court which was abolished by 1 Wm. 4, c. 70; the proceedings now issue out of the Royal Courts of Justice, and two of the judges of the High Court hold the circuits in Wales and Cheshire, as in other English counties.The jurisdiction of the Great Session of Wales, which was first established by Henry VIII., was similar to that of Judges of Assize in England. Latterly it was exercised by two barristers, who sat for eighteen days only, into which period all the litigious business has to be compressed....
great bodily injury
great bodily injury : physical injury suffered by the victim of a violent crime that causes a substantial risk of death, extended loss or impairment of a body part or function, or permanent disfigurement : physical injury that is more serious than that ordinarily suffered in a battery ...
Great Writ
Great Writ : habeas corpus ad subjiciendum at habeas corpus used with the ...
Great
Large in space of much size big immense enormous expanded opposed to small and little as a great house ship farm plain distance length...
Great bellied
Having a great belly bigbellied pregnant teeming...
Greatly
In a great degree much...
Great White shark
a large shark Carcharodon carcharias class Chondrichtyes usually found in warm seas When young it is bluish but it becomes white with age It grows to over 15 feet in length and is feared as a man eater Also called white shark and great white...
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