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Queen
Queen [fr. cwen, Sax., a wife], a woman who is sovereign of a kingdom. The queen regent, regnant, or sovereign is she who holds the Crown in her own right, and such queen of England has...
Queening
Any one of several kinds of apples as summer queening scarlet queening and early queening An apple called the queening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago
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Queen
The wife of a king
Queen's Bench Division
Queen's Bench Division, means the English court, formerly known as the Queen's Bench or King's Bench, that presides over tort and contract actions, applications for judicial review, and some Magistrate-court appeals, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,...
Bounty of Queen Anne
Bounty of Queen Anne, given by royal charter, which was confirmed by Queen Anne (2 Anne, c. 11), whereby all the revenue of first-fruits and tenths (see those titles) which belonged to the English Crown was...
Queen's Bench
Queen's Bench, means historically, the highest common-law court in England, presided over by the reigning monarch. The jurisdiction of this court now lies with the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice; when a...
Queen's Counsel
Queen's Counsel (abbreviated Q.C.). See KING'S COUNSEL (abbreviated K.C.). All Queen's Counsel at the death of the late Queen Victoria became King's Counsel without any new appointment.
Queen's Coroner and Attorney
Queen's Coroner and Attorney, an officer on the Crown side of the Queen's Bench (6 & 7 Vict. c. 20), who by the (English) Judicature Officers) Act, 1879, became a 'Master of the Supreme Court.'
Queen's Remembrancer
Queen's Remembrancer, an officer on the revenue side of the Court of Exchequer. See the (English) Queen's Remembrancer Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 21), and the (English) Crown Suits Act, 1865 (28 & 29...
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