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War Office, the address and offices of the Secretary of State for War and Army Council.A child under guardianship. A ward of Court is an infant under the protection of the High Court. An infant is constituted a ward of Court by an action relating to his estate; by an order made on an application for the appointment of a guardian; or by a payment into Court under the Trustee Act, 1925, s. 63; or inan administration action, to which he is party, see Brown v. Collins, (1884) 25 Ch D 56. The control of the Court ceases when the infant comes of age, Bolton v. Bolton, (1891) 3 Ch 270; see Seton on Judgments; Dan. Ch. Pr.; Simpson on Infants. See INFANT.Also, an electoral subdivision of a borough for the purposes of the local government elections [(English) Local Government Act, 1933, ss. 24 to 30]. In boroughs divided by wards, an alderman or, in some cases, a councillor, not the mayor, is returning officer (s. 28). As to district councils, see ss. 36 and 37. Parishes may be divided into war...

Herald

Herald [fr. here, Sax., an army, and heald, a champion; herault, heraut, Fr.; herald, Ger.; araldo, Ital.; because it was part of his office to charge or challenge unto battle or combat], an officer who registers genealogies, adjusts ensigns armorial, regulates funerals, and carries messages between princes, and proclaims war and peace. Heralds were anciently called Dukes at Arms, probably from the Latin ducere ad arma; because the conducting of affairs concerning peace and war devolved upon them, their office being to carry messages to the enemy, and to proclaim war and peace. Hence the persons of heralds were deemed sacred by the law of nations, and were received and protected by belligerent powers, as flags of truce are in the present day. The three chief heralds are called Kings of Arms; of whom (1) Garter is the principal, instituted by Henry V. His office is to attend the Knights of the Garter at their solemnities, and to marshal the funerals of the nobility. (2) Clarencieux King...

War Department

War Department, a department for which the sovereign issues orders to his forces. This department was formerly united with the Colonial Office under an official called the 'Secretary at War,' who was not a Secretary of State; but an additional Secretary of State was appointed, for affairs of war solely, in the year 1854. [See the (English) War Office Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 17)]By the (English) Army (Annual) Act (9 Edw. 7, c. 3), certain powers formerly exercisable by the Secretary of State, and all powers of the Commander-in-Chief and the Adjutant-General under the Army Act, were transferred to the Army Council. See ARMY COUNCIL....

Colonial Office

Colonial Office, the department of state through which the sovereign appoints colonial governors, etc., and communicates with them. Until the year 1854, the administration of Colonial and military affairs was combined, but after the Crimean War an additional Secretary of State was appointed for the administration of military affairs only see WAR OFFICE....

Army Council

Army Council. This Council was first established in 1904, when the post of Commander-in-Chief was abolished. The four military members are the Chief of the Staff, the Adjutant-General, the Quarter-Master General, and the Master-General of the Ordnance, and there is also a finance member and a civil member. The respective duties of those members are defined by an Order in Council of 10th August, 1904, and each is responsible to the Secretary of State for War, who is solely responsible to the Crown and Parliament. The Secretary of the War Office acts as secretary to the Army Council. See also the (English) Army (Annual) Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 3), s. 4, as to the powers of the Council....

Judge Advocate, Judge Advocate-General

Judge Advocate, Judge Advocate-General. The Judge Advocate-General is an officer appointed by letters-patent under the Great Seal. He is under the orders of the Secretary of State for War to whom he acts as legal adviser. One of his functions is to review Court-martial proceedings. All general military courts-martial are attended by a judge advocate acting by deputation, either special or general, under the hand and seal of the judge advocate-general; or by a person appointed by general officers commanding the forces abroad, to execute the office of judge advocate. The duties of an officiating judge advocate at a Court-martial are to superintend the proceedings, to make a minute of the proceedings, and to advise the Court on points of law, of custom, and of form, and so far to assist the prisoner as to elicit a full statement of the facts material to the defence. The proceedings of general courts-martial held at home are trans-mitted by the officiating judge advocate to the judge advoc...

Cartel-ship

Cartel-ship, a vessel commissioned in time of war to exchange the prisoners of two hostile powers; also a carry any particular proposal from one to another; for this reason the officer who commands her is particularly ordered to carry on cargo, ammunition, or implements of war, except a single gun for signals...

Cartulary

Commander-in-Chief

Commander-in-Chief. The army was originally under the personal command of the sovereign, but in 1793 this command was delegated to a Commander-in-Chief appointed by patent. The command was divided in the middle of the nineteenth century between the Commander-in-Chief and a Secretary of State for War. The latter gradually became predominant, which held to the abolition of the former office in 1904, the Commander-in-Chief's duties being divided between the Army Council and the Inspector-General, the Secretary of State for War being responsible for the Army as a whole....

Duel

Duel, in our ancient law, a legal combat between persons in a doubtful case for the trial of the truth, long since disused.In modern times a duel is a combat with weapons between two persons upon some quarrel precedent, wherein, if one of them is killed, the other and the seconds are guilty of murder whether the seconds fight or not, Hawk. Pl. 47.Notwithstanding that this was the undoubted law, duels were by no means unfrequent in England up to about the middle of the nineteenth century, e.g., the Duke of Wellington exchanged shots without effect with Lord Winchelsea in 1829; Lord Cardigan wounded Captain Tuckett, and was tried before, and acquitted by, the House of Lords in 1841; and Mr. Seton was killed by Lieutenant Hawkey in1845. For a full list of celebrated duels, see Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, tit. 'Duel.'It is a misdemeanour to challenge another to fight, or to provoke another to send a challenge, R. v. Phillips, (1805) 6 East 464; and fighting or promoting a duel renders an ...

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