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Deed

several names, their rank, profession or calling, and their places of abode, except in the case of a peer. The assumption of any additional name should be stated so as to preserve identity on the face of

Market overt

property by a sale in market overt, he still has his remedies, e.g., for conversion against the seller, Peer v. Humphrey, (1835) 2 Ad & El 495.

Degradation

abasing a lowering from ones standing or rank in office or society diminution as the degradation of a peer a knight a general or a bishop

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Incomparable

Not comparable admitting of no comparison with others unapproachably eminent without a peer or equal matchless peerless transcendent

Nobleman

One of the nobility a noble a peer one who enjoys rank above a commoner either by virtue of birth by office or by patent

Peeress

The wife of a peer a woman ennobled in her own right or by right of marriage

Access

admissible as a witness to prove non-access, Goodright v. Moss, (1777) 2 Cowp p. 594. See also Poulett Peerage Case, 1903 AC 395, and Russell v. Russell, 1924 AC 687 see PATERNITY. An owner of land adjoining

Chancellor, Lord

a privy councillor, and prolocutor of the House of Lords by prescription (but not necessarily, though usually, a peer of the realm), and vacates his office with the ministry by which he was appointed, but is entitled

Court-baron

that there should be two suitors at the least; for since freemen can only be tried by their peers or equals, should there be but one freeman, he could then have no peer or judge, and consequently

Peerage

The rank or dignity of a peer

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