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Corporation or body politic

if spiritual, by the ordinary; if lay, by the founder or his representatives; viz., the civil by the king (who is the fundator incipiens of all), represented in the King's Bench Division of the High Court: the

Check

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger such a menace of a players king by an adversarys move as would if it

Claims Court of

their tenure of divers lands. See the Report of the Court before the Coronation of his late Majesty King Edward the Seventh, by G. Woods Wollaston, Principal Garter King of arms of the Inner Temple, published by

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Chamberiain

duties are performed at a Coronation, and who can appoint a deputy subject to the approval of the king (see CENSOR). (2) The Lord Chamberlain of the Household, an officer appointed by the sovereign, on the nomination

Central Criminal Court

(English) Central Criminal Court Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 16) [see (English) Palmer's Act], authorizes the King's Bench Division of the High Court to order any indictment for any felony or misdemeanour supposed to have

Butlerage

of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing into England twenty tuns or more, and by King Edward I. was exchanged into a duty of 2s. for every tun imported by merchant strangers. It was

Burgage-tenure

Burgage-tenure. Tenure in burgage is, where an ancient burrough is, of which the King is lord, and they, that have tenements within the burrough, hold of the King their tenements; that every

Bishop

jurisdiction in England, Wales, or Ireland, and the archbishop's suffragan or assistant. A bishop is elected by the king's cong' d' 'lire, or license to elect the person named by the king, accompanied, by virtue of 25

Conduct

an offence constituted by the conduct, and (b) he has been sentenced for the offence, Office of the King's Prosecutor, Brussels v. Cando Armas [HL(E)] Lord Bingham of Cornhill [Extradition Act, 2003 (C 41), s. 65(1) (UK)]

Bill of Rights

Lords and Commons to the Prince and Princess of Orange, and afterwards enacted in Parliament, when they became King and Queen, as 1 W. & M., sess. 2, c. 2. Its Preambles sets forth that King James,

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