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Lord Privy Seal
Lord Privy Seal. An office with, at the present time, no definite duties, but to which Lord Salisbury attached
Very Lord and very tenant
Very Lord and very tenant [versus dominus et verus tenens, Lat.], they are immediate lord and tenant one to another,
Lord President of the Council
Lord President of the Council, the President of the Privy Council, the fifth great officer of State. He is
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Brougham's (Lord) Acts (English)
Brougham's (Lord) Acts (English). The best known of them are the Beer Act of 1830 (11 Geo. 4, 8 1 Wm. 4, c. 64), the Judicial Committee Act of 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c....
Lyndhurst's (Lord) Act
Lyndhurst's (Lord) Act (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 54) rendered marriages within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity absolutely null and void. Theretofore such marriages were voidable merely. See MARRIAGE.
Lord Campbell's Act
Lord Campbell's Act [after Baron John Campbell (1779-1861), Scottish-born British jurist who played an instrumental role in the passage
Campbell's (Lord) Acts (English)
Campbell's (Lord) Acts (English)-(1) for amending the practice in prosecutions for libel (see that title), 6 & 7 Vict. c. 96 (the LibelAct,1843); and (2) the Fatal Accidents Act,1846, now, with its amending Acts, known as...
Lord of a Manor
Lord of a Manor, the grantee or owner of a manor. See COPYHOLD.
Denman's (Lord) Act
Denman's (Lord) Act (amending the law of evidence (6 & 7 Vict. c. 85 (the Evidence Act, 1843) provides that no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of incapacity from crime or...
Lord Chamberlain
Lord Chamberlain. See CHAMBERLAIN.
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