 | William Herbert - Inns of Chancery - 1804 - 454 pages
...authority, by stat. j Eliz. c. 18. is declared to be exactly the same) is with us created at this day by the mere delivery of the king's great seal into his custody." Comment, vol. iii. p. 47. =• A Discourse of the Name and Dignity of Lord Chancellor, presented to... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 462 pages
...done, the king; drinks to him, and then presents liim with the cup for his fee. CHANCELLOR Lord High, one of the principal officers of the civil government,...custody. He is a privy -counsellor by his office ; and, according to lord-chancellor Ellesmere, prolocutor or speaker of ihe House of Lords by prescription.... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 962 pages
...done, the king drinks to him, and then presents him with the cup for his fee. CHANCELtor, Lord High, one of the principal officers of the civil government,...of the king's great seal into his custody. He is a privy-counsellor by his office ; and, according to lord- chancellor Ellesmere, prolocutor or speaker... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Prerogative, Royal - 1820 - 528 pages
...right to hold a judicial office, impliedly hold by royal grant (b). The Lord Chancellor is appointed by the mere delivery of the King's great seal into his custody (e). The Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench is created by writ (d). The ViceChancellor (e),... | |
 | Robert Huish - Great Britain - 1821 - 746 pages
...unapplicable to the question. — " The office of chancellor or lord keeper,- is with us, at this day, created by the mere delivery of the king's great seal into his custody ; whereby he becomes, without writ or patent, an officer of the greatest weight and power of any now... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 848 pages
...Great Britain, or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, is the highest honour of the long robe, being created by the mere delivery of the king's great seal into his custody : whereby he becomes, without writ or patent, an officer of the greatest weight and power of any now... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...authority by statute 5 Eliz. c. 18. is declared to be exactly the same) is with us at this day created by the mere delivery of the king's great seal into his custody: whereby he becomes, without writ or patent, an officer of (he greatest weight and power of any now... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 568 pages
...of king's bench. See post. p. 278. declared to be exactly the same,) is with us at this day created by the mere delivery of the king's great seal into his custody° : whereby he becomes, without writ or patent, an officer of the greatest weight and power of any now... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...King's Great Seal, so that the office of Chancellor, or Lord Keeper, is with us, at this day, created by the mere delivery of the King's Great Seal into his custody." If, by the first part of this quotation, Blackstone wished it to be inferred that Chancellors have... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 809 pages
...GREAT BRITAIN, OR LORD KEEPER of THE GREAT SEAL is the highest honor of the long robe, being created by the mere delivery of the king's great seal into his custody ; whereby he becomes, without writ or patent, an officer of the greatest weight and power of any subsisting... | |
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Eliz. c. 18, is declared to be exactly the same, is with us at this day created by the mere delivery of the king's great seal into his custody, whereby he becomes, without writ or patent, an officer of the greatest weight and power of any now subsisting... 
