Lord Chief Justice is the name given to the judge who presides over the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court.
LORD - Obs. A lord was anyone who held vassals and land cultivated by dependent peasants.
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Irvine, Lord: The current Lord Chancellor, the head of the UK's Judiciary.
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Lord Hale, 2 P. C. 149, 150, recommends great caution in granting such warrants. 1.
Year of our Lord. Statutes in some States provide that "year" shall be taken to mean "the year of our Lord".
Yes; Yez. See Oyez.
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for the city populations " had not the habit and use of slavery," and while serfs might sometimes find a refuge in the cities from exceptionally severe taskmasters, " there is no doubt that freemen gradually united with them under the lord's ...
Circuit Judge: Judge of the Circuit Court, addressed as "My Lord" whether male or female.
Class action: Legal action taken by a number of different persons where the facts and the defendants are similar.
If there were no lineal descendants upon the death of the tenant, the land reverted back to the lord. TOP Felony : A serious crime for which the punishment is prison for more than a year or death. Crimes of less gravity are called misdemeanours.
Subinfeudation The process whereby, under the feudal system of tenure, a person receiving a grant of land from a lord, could himself become a lord by subdividing and subletting that land to others.
This was the payment of a sum to the lord for permission to alien (or alienate) the estate, i.e., to grant it (sell or make a gift of it) to another.
An ancient term derived from "tenure", the feudal system under which land ownership was granted to someone by their lord.
If the blood line ran out (no children) then the title would revert to the descendants of the lord who originally gave the land to the title-holding family. Thus, it could not be transferred to anyone outside the family.
ULTIMUS HAERES.
The last or remote heir; the lord. So called in contra-dis-tinction to the haeredes proximus, (q. v.) and the haeredes remotiores. (q. v.) Dalr Feud. Pr.... more ...
Fairness. A system of legal rules developed by the Lord Chancellor and special courts in England to make the common law (q.v.) fairer. Also: a financial interest in property or goods.
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When the current UK copyright legislation was debated in Parliament, former Prime Minister Lord Callaghan of Cardiff successfully proposed an amendment entitling the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children to indefinitely retain the rights to ...
A kind of land ownership that is unfettered, outright and absolute. It is the opposite of the feudal system and supposes no obligation to another (i.e. a lord).
Alteration:
Changing or making different.
FEE TAIL
A form of tenure under the feudal system that could only be transferred to a lineal descendant. If there were no lineal descendants upon the death of the tenant, the land reverted back to the lord.
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