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Inauguration
act of inducting into office with solemnity, as the coronation of the sovereign, or the consecration of a prelate.
Petit treason
kind, as if a servant killed his master, a wife her husband, a secular or religious man his prelate. But by 9 Geo. 4, c. 31, s. 2, every offence which, before the passing of the Act,
Royal Assent
originate with the Crown, the Clerk, expressing the gratitude of the subject, addresses the throne as follows: 'Les prelats, seigneurs, et communs, en ce present parlement assembles, au nom de tout vos autres sujets remercient tres humblement
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Witena-gemot, or Wittena-gemote
by which an Anglo-Saxon king was guided in all the main acts of government. It was composed of prelates and abbots, of the aldermen of shires, and as it is generally expressed, of the noble and wise
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