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Royal Assent. The act by which the Crown agrees to a bill which has already passed both Houses is called 'The Royal Assent,' which may be given by the sovereign in person in the House of Lords, the Commons standing at the bar; or by the Commissioners appointed by the Crown, under the Declaratory Act (33 Hen. 8, c. 21), for that special purpose and for the single occasion. The forms observed in both cases do not vary, and are as follows: The Lords being assembled in their own House, the Sovereign or the Commissioners seated, and the Commons at the bar, the titles of the several bills which have passed both Houses are read, and the king's or queen's answer is declared by the Clerk of the Parliaments in Norman-French. To a bill of supply, the assent is given in the following words: 'Le roy (or, la reyne) remercie ses loyaux sujets, accepte leur benevolence et ainsi le veult.' To a privte bill it is thus declared: 'Soit fait comme il est desire.' And to public general bills it is given in ...
Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...
Assent, or Consent
Assent, or Consent, agreeing to or recognizing a matter, as an executor's assent to a legacy, or the assent of a corporation to bylaws, etc., see ROYAL ASSENT....
Chancellor, Lord
Chancellor, Lord, properly, 'the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain' [fr. Cancellarius, low Lat., cancelli, Lat., latticework], the highest judicial functionary in the kingdom, and superior, in point of precedency, to every temporal lord. He is appointed by the delivery of the king's Great Seal into his custody. He may not be a Roman Catholic (10 Geo. 4, c. 7, s. 12). He is a cabinet minister, 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 to a pension. When royal commissions are issued for opening the session, for giving the royal assent to bills, or for proroguing Parliament, the Lord Chancellor is always one of the commissioners, and reads the royal speech on the occasion. To him belongs the appointment of all justices of the peace throughout the kingdom, and the appointment and removal of county court judges (se...
Uniformity, Act of
Uniformity, Act of, (English) 14 Car. 2, c. 4, 'for the Uniformity of Public Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies and for establishing the Form of making, ordaining, and consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons of the Church of England' (now partly repealed), received the Royal Assent on May 19, 1662 and came into operation on August 24 (the feast of St. Bartholomew) following (see Lane's Notes on English Church History).After a long preamble setting forth the preparation of the Prayer Book by several Bishops and other Divines appointed by the King, its approval by the two Convocations, and stating that 'nothing more conduceth to the peace of this nation, nor to the honour of our religion and the propagation thereof, than an universal agreement in the public worship of Almighty God.' The Act directs that:All and singular ministers in any cathedral, collegiate or parish church or chapel or other place of public worship within this realm of England, d...
Interpretation Act, 1889 (English)
Interpretation Act, 1889 (English) (52 & 53 Vict. c. 63). A most important statute, repealing and re-enacting Lord Brougham's Act of 1850 (13 Vict. c. 21), 'for shortening the language used in Acts of Parliament' and other similar Acts, and further shortening such language. By this Act, in Acts passed after 1850, words importing the masculine gender include females, words in the singular include the plural, and words in the plural include the singular; also, definitions are provided of 'month,' 'land,' 'parish' (see those titles), and other terms.The Act also provides that:-In this Act and in every other Act, whether passed before or after the commencement of this Act, references to the Sovereign reigning at the time of the passing of the Act or to the Crown shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as references to the Sovereign for the time being, and this Act shall be binding on the Crown (s. 30).Statutory powers to make rules, etc., may be exercised from time to ti...
Le Roy (or la Reine) le veut
Le Roy (or la Reine) le veut.-(The King (or the Queen) wills it.) The form of the royal assent to public Bills in Parliament....
Le Roy (or la Reine) remercie ses bons sujets, accepte leur benevolence et ainsi le veut
Le Roy (or la Reine) remercie ses bons sujets, accepte leur benevolence et ainsi le veut. [The King (or the Queen) thanks his (or her) loyal subjects, accepts their benevolence, and wills it thus.] The form of the royal assent to a Bill of supply....
Le Roy (or la Reine) s'avisera
Le Roy (or la Reine) s'avisera.-[The King (or the Queen) will consider of it.] The form of words used to express a denial of the royal assent....
Les Prelats, Seigneurs, et Communes en ce present Parlement assemblees, au nom de touts vos autres sujets, remercient tres humblement votre Majeste, et prient a Dieu vous donner en sante bonne vie et longue
Les Prelats, Seigneurs, et Communes en ce present Parlement assemblees, au nom de touts vos autres sujets, remercient tres humblement votre Majeste, et prient a Dieu vous donner en sante bonne vie et longue.-The prelates, lords, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, in the name of all your other subjects, most humbly thank your Majesty, and pray to God to grant you in health a good and long life.) The form of words used by the clerk in an act of grace or indemnity, which originates with the Crown, or, so to speak, has the royal assent before it is agreed to by the two Houses....
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