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Poursuivant
Poursuivant, a king's messenger; those employed in martial causes were called Poursuivants-at-Arms. There are, at present, in the Heralds' Office four poursuivants, distinguished by the names
Exchanges, Regimental
Exchanges, Regimental. The Sovereign may from time to time by regulation authorize exchanges by officers from one regiment to another [(English) Regimental Exchanges Act, 1875]. Under the Army Act, s. 155 (3), any person who negotiates,...
Petition of Right
and mariners into their houses against the laws and customs of the realm; that commissions for proceeding by martial law be revoked; all which they pray as their rights and liberties, according to the laws and statutes
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Military Courts
Military Courts, the Court of Chivalry and Courts martial. See CHIVALRY, COURT OF, and COURTS MARITALS.
Justs, or Jousts
Justs, or Jousts, exercises between martial men and persons of honour, with spears, on horseback; different from tournaments, which were military exercises between many
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction, is a verbal coat of many colours. Jurisdiction originally seems to have had the meaning which Lord Reid ascribed to it in Anisminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission, (1969) 2 AC 147, namely, the entitlement...
Inquiry, Court of
Inquiry, Court of, frequently appointed by the Army authorities to ascertain the propriety of re-sorting to ulterior proceedings against a person charged before it. The 4th section of the (English) Army (Annual) Act, 1901 (1 Edw....
Impracticability
It must therefore be held that so long as an officer can be legally tried by a Court Martial the authorities concerned may, on the ground that such a trial is not impracticable or inexpedient, invoke Rule
Herald
six subordinate heralds, according to their origin, as they were created to attend dukes and great lords in martial expeditions, i.e., York, Lancaster, Chester, Windsor, Richmond, and Somerset; the four former were instituted by Edward III, and
Bellic
Of or pertaining to war warlike martial
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