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Lord High Steward

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High Steward of the Royal Household, Lord, Court of

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High Steward, Court of the Lord

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High Steward of the Universities, Court of the Lord

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Court-leet

annual Court-leet of the Manor and Liberty of Savoy which meets at St. Clement Danes Vestry Hall, the High Steward of the Manor presiding, a jury being empannelled one month aftr Easter and serving for a year from … The Court-leet is a court of record appointed to be held once a year within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet, being the King's Court granted by charter to the lords

Precedence or precedency

Stat. 1 Geo. 1, c. 3. * Lord High Constable. * Lord Marshal. * Lord Admiral. * Lord Steward of the Household. * Lord Chamberlain of the Household.} above all peers of their own degree. * Dukes. … * 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.

House of Lords

1. As to the trial of peers indicted for treason or felony by the House of Lords, see HIGH STEWARD, COURT OF THE LORD. … (2) the representative peers of Scotland and Ireland; (3) life peers, i.e., Lords of Appeal in Ordinary. The Lord High Chancellor presides. Bankrupts are disqualified from sitting or voting by s. 32 of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883. The

Serjeant

(2) Serjeants-at-arms, officers attending the sover-eign's person to arrest individuals of distinction offending, and give attendance on the Lord High Steward of England, sitting in judgment on any traitor, etc. Two of these, by the royal permission, attend on

Peer

felony is found against a peer it is removable by writ of certiorari into the Court of the Lord High Steward (see that title). In 1935, on 12h December, the trial of Lord de Clifford took place on a

Sergeant

bailiff of the hundred also an officer whose duty was to attend on the king and on the lord high steward in court to arrest traitors and other offenders He is now called sergeant at arms and two of

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