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A church of a monastery The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist as Beverly Minster Southwell Minster etc and is also improperly used for any large church...
County palatine
County palatine [fr. Palatium, Lat., a court]. There were three of these counties--Chester, Durham, and Lancaster. The two former were such by immemorial custom; the last was created by Edward III. The Bishop of Durham and the Duke of Lancaster had royal power within their respective counties. They could pardon treasons, murders, and felonies; they appointed judges and magistrates; all writs and indictments ran in their names,and offences were said to be done against their peace and not contra pacem domini regis. The (English) Act (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 70), abolished the Court Session of the County Palatine of Chester, and subjected the county in all things to the jurisdiction of the superior Courts at West-minster. By the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 18, replacing (English) Judicature Act, 1873, s. 16, the jurisdiction of the Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster and of the Court of Pleas at Durham is transferred to the High Courtof Justice. But the jurisdiction of the Chancery ...
Dominion (His Majesty's)
Dominion (His Majesty's). The Statute of West-minster (22 Geo. 5, c. 4), s. 1, provides: 'In this Act the expression Dominion means any of the following Dominions ,that is to say, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, and Newfoundland'; see also COLONY. These Dominions are also styled self-governing Dominions...
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