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Solicitor-General

a private practice. As to the Solicitor-General for Scotland, see LORD ADVOCATE. Attached to the household of a queen-consort there is an officer with this title. Consult Norton-Kyshe's Attorney-General and Solicitor-General of England. The second highest-ranking legal

Settlement, Act of

heirs of the body of the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover (daughter of James the First's daughter, the Queen of Bohemia, and mother of George the First), 'being Protestants,' and various provisions made for securing our religion,

Senior counsel

Senior counsel, a 'senior counsel' more or less occupies a position akin to a Queen's counsel in England next after the Attorney General and the Solicitor General, T.V. Chaudhary v. Chief Secretary, Govt.

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Semper pr'sumitur pro negante

Beauclerk (formerly Holden), 1906 AC 148]; and if any cort be equally divided [as was the Court of Queen's Bench in Reg. v. Archbishop of Canterbury, (1848) 11 QB 483, on the question whether the opposition to

Royal Title

pursuance of the Royal Titles Act, 1901, and the title of Empress of India had been added by Queen Victoria in pursuance of the Royal Titles Act, 1876, to the Royal Titles given under the Union Acts.

Reputation

public rights may be established by reputation, e.g., highways [Austin's case, (1672) 1 Vent. 181]; commons, Warwick v. Queen's College, Oxford, (1871) 6 Ch App 716; connection of mark or name with goods: see TRADE MARKS.

Remembrancer

Remembrancer, an officer of the Exchequer. See QUEEN'S REMEMBRANCER; now KING'S.

Regnum non est divisibile

Regnum non est divisibile (Co. Litt. 165a), the kingdom is not divisible - for this reason the Queen and Princess Margaret did not take the Crown as co-partners on their father's death

Prince of Wales

Duke of Cornwall by inheritance (during the life of the sovereign), without any new creation. See Letters of Queen Victoria, Sir James Graham to Her Majesty, 6th Dec. 1841. As to rights of the heir-apparent to submarine

Prince

Prince [fr. princeps, Latt.], a sovereign; a chief ruler of either sex. 'Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex for her princely virtues, Camden.

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