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LETTERS PATENT

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 501 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LETTERS PATENT . It is a See also:

RULE

rule alike of See also:

COMMON

common See also:

law and See also:

sound policy that grants of See also:

FREEHOLD

freehold interests, franchises, liberties, &c., by the See also:

SOVEREIGN

sovereign to a subject should be made only after due See also:

CONSIDERATION (from Lat. considerare, to look at closely, examine, generally taken to be from con-, and the base seen in sidus, sideris, a star, the word being supposed to be originally an astrological or astronomical term)

consideration, and in a See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form readily accessible to the public. These ends are attained in See also:

England through the agency of that piece of constitutional machinery known as " letters patent." It is here proposed to consider only the characteristics of letters patent generally.

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