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Lords Temporal
Lords Temporal, those lay peers who have seats in the House of
House of Lords
in most civil cases, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. The lords temporal are dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons. The number of … the Crown to add to it by fresh creation. The lords temporal consist of: (1) peers of the United Kingdom, of Great
Estates of the realm
vol. iii. c. viii. part 3. The Lords Spiritual, the Lords Temporal, and Com-mon of Great Britain, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,
House of Lords
:the upper house of the British parliament composed of the lords temporal and spiritual called also Lords
Temporal lords
Temporal lords, the peers of the realm; the bishops are not in
Chancellor, Lord
minister, a privy councillor, and prolocutor of the House of Lords by prescription (but not necessarily, though usually, a peer of … the kingdom, and superior, in point of precedency, to every temporal lord. He is appointed by the delivery of the king's
Act of Parliament
by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1
Resignation
giving up of temporal land into the hands of the lord. The act or an instance of surrendering or relin-quishing an
Parliament, the Imperial
King, and the three estates of the Realm, i.e., the lords spiritual and temporal (called the House of Lords or Upper
Lords of Erection
Lords of Erection. On the Reformation in Scotland, the king, as … formerly held by abbots and priors, gave them out in temporal lordships to favourites, who were termed Lords of Erection.
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