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Chancellor, Lord
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 … 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
Act of Parliament
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
Estates of the realm
is an error. See Hallam, Middle Ages, vol. iii. c. viii. part 3. The Lords Spiritual, the Lords Temporal, and Com-mon of Great Britain, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 570.
House of Lords
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Resignation
use restrained to yielding up a spiritual living to the bishop, as surrender is the giving up of temporal land into the hands of the lord. The act or an instance of surrendering or relin-quishing an office, … living to the bishop, as surrender is the giving up of temporal land into the hands of the lord. The act or an instance of surrendering or relin-quishing an office, right, or claim, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th
Parliament, the Imperial
see IRELAND), consisting of the King, and the three estates of the Realm, i.e., the lords spiritual and temporal (called the House of Lords or Upper House of Parliament), and the persons elected by the people (called
Lords of Erection
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