Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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privy seal, receiving a warrant from the sig net office, issues the privy seal, which is an authority to the lord chancellor to pass the great seal where the nature of the grant re quires it. But the privy seals for money be gin in the treasury, whence the first warrant issues, countersigned by the lord treasurer. The lord privy seal is a member of the cabi net council. Enc. Lond. LORD WARDEN OF CINQUE PORTS. See CINQUE PORTS. LORDS APPELLANTS. Five peers who for a time superseded Richard II. in his government, and whom, after a brief control of the government, he in turn superseded in 1397, and put the survivors of them to death. Richard II.'s eighteen commissioners (twelve peers and six commoners) took their place, as an embryo privy council acting with full powers, during the parliamentary recess. Brown. LORDS COMMISSIONERS. In En glish law. When a high public office in the state, formerly executed by an individual, is put into commission, the persons charged with the commission are called "lords com missioners," or sometimes "lords" or "com missioners" simply. Thus, we have, in lieu of the lord treasurer and lord high admiral of former times, the lords commissioners of the treasury, and the lords commissioners of the admiralty; and, whenever the great seal is put into commission, the persons charged with it are called "commissioners" or "lords commissioners" of the great seal. Mozley & Whitley. LORD'S DAY. A name sometimes giv en to Sunday. Co. Litt. 135. LORDS JUSTICES OF APPEAL. In English law. The title of the ordinary judges of the court of appeal, by Jud. Act 1877, § 4. Prior to the judicature acts, there were two "Iord3 justices of appeal in chan cery, " to whom an appeal lay from a vice chancellor, by 14 & 15 Viet. c. 83. LORDS MARCHERS. Those noble men who lived on the marches of Wales or Scotland, who in times past had their laws and power of life and death, like petty kings. Abolished by 27 Hen. VIII. c. 26, and 6 Edw. VI. c 10. Wharton. LORDS OF APPEAL. Those members of the house of lords of whom at least three must be present for the hearing and determi nation of appeals. They are the lord chan

cellor, the lords of appeal in ordinary, and such peers of parliament as hold, or have held, high judicial offices, such as ex-chan cellors and judges of the superior courts in Great Britain and Ireland. App. Jur. Act 1876, §§ 5, 25. LORDS OF APPEAL IN ORDI NARY. These are appointed, with a salary of £6,000 a year, to aid the house of lords in the hearing of appeals. They rank as barons for life, but sit and vote in the house of lords during the tenure of their office only. App. Jur. Act 1876, § 6. LORDS OF ERECTION. On the Ref ormation in Scotland, the king, as proprietoi of benefices formerly held by abbots and priors, gave them out in temporal lordships to favorites, who were termed M lords of erection." Wharton. LORDS OF PARLIAMENT. Those who have seats in the house of lords. Dur ing bankruptcy, peers are disqualified from sitting or voting in the house of lords. 84 & 35 Viet. c. 50. LORDS OF REGALITY. In Scotch law. Persons to whom rights of civil and criminal jurisdiction were given by the crown. LORDS ORDAINERS. Lords appoint ed in 1312, in the reign of Edward II., for the control of the sovereign and the court party, and for the general reform and better govern ment of the country. Brown. LORDS SPIRITUAL. The archbishops and bishops who have seats in the house of lords. LORDS TEMPORAL. Those lay peers who have seats in the house of lords. LORDSHIP. In English law. Domin ion, manor, seigniory, domain; also a title of honor used to a nobleman not being a duke. It is also the customary titulary appellation of the judges and some other persons in au thority and office. LOSS. In insurance. The injury or damage sustained by the insured in conse quence of the happening of one or more of the accidents or misfortunes against which the insurer, in consideration of the premium, has undertaken to indemnify the insured. 1 Bouv. Inst. no. 1215. A loss is total when the subject insured is wholly destroyed or reduced to an entirely worthless oon dition. It is partial when the subject is injured, but not destroyed, or when it still retains some

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