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Privily

In a privy manner privately secretly

Latrine

A privy or water closet esp in a camp hospital etc

Jakes

A privy

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Gong

A privy or jakes

Australia, Commonwealth of.

Australia, Commonwealth of. The association of the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, and Western Australia in a federal Commonwealth comprising also Papua, the Northern Territory, and Norfolk, Ashmore and Cantier Island...

Arches, Court of

Arches, Court of [fr. curia de arcubus, Lat.], a court of appeal belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the judge of which is called the Dean of the Arches, because his Court was anciently held in...

Lords of Appeal in Ordinary

Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, originally two persons having held high judicial office, or practised at the bar for not less than fifteen years, appointed, with a salary of 6,000l. a year, to aid the House...

Appeal

Appeal [fr. appellatio, Lat.; appeller, Fr.]. the judicial examination of the decision by a higher Court of the decision of an inferior Court. Thus there is an appeal from the High Court to the Court of...

Trade, Board of

Trade, Board of. The Board of Trade is in theory a committee of the Privy Council, and by s. 12 of the (English) Interpretation Act, 1889, the expression means 'The Lords of the Committee for the...

Precedence or precedency

Precedence or precedency, the act or state of going before; adjustment of place. The rules of precedence may be reduced to the following list, in which those marked * are entitled to the rank here allotted...

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