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Privilege

from serving the office of sheriff, from obeying subp'nas, and serving on juries. 'Privilege of Parliament' continues to peers at all times, and to commoners for a 'convenient' time after prorogation and dissolution. Peers are exempt from

Impeachment

Impeachment, a prosecution by the House of Commons before the House of Lords of any person, either peer or commoner, for treason, or other high crimes and misdemeanours, or of a peer for any crime; in

Temporal lords

Temporal lords, the peers of the realm; the bishops are not in strictness held to be peers, but merely lords of Parliament,

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Scotland and Ireland

'Union Acts,' and in the Revised Statutes. This Act confirms twenty-five Articles of Union, gives Scotland sixteen Representative Peers (to be elected for life by the whole body) in the House of Lords (see SCOTS PEERS), and

Magna Carta

if he fall into our mercy. And none of the said amerciaments shall be amerced but by their peers, and after the manner of their offence. No man of the church shall be amerced after the quantity

Black Rod, Gentleman Usher of

on the top of which reposes a golden lion. During the session of Parliament he attends on the peers, and to his custody all peers impeached for any crime or contempt are first committed, Consult May, Parl.

Appellate Jurisdiction Acts, 1876, 1887, 1913 and 1929

held high judicial office or not, has still a technical right to take part in a judgment; but peers not being law lords have not taken such part since 1783 (in Bishop of London v. Fytche, (1783)

Pares

Pares, a person's peers or equals; as the jury for trial of causes, who were originally the vassals or tenants of the

House of Commons

19 Geo. 5, c. 12). Aliens are not eligible as members, neither are minors, lunatics, English or Scotch peers; but Irish peers, unless representative, may sit for any place in Great Britain. The English, Scotch, and Irish

Licensee

subsisting on the date on which he claims to be a licensee, Ludhichem Agencies v. Ahmed R. V. Peer Mohamed, AIR 1981 SC 1998: (1982) 1 SCR 712: (1981) 4 SCC 273. It means a person licensed

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