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LORDS OF APPEAL IN ORDINARY

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LORDS OF See also:

APPEAL

APPEAL IN See also:
ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)
ORDINARY , in See also:

England, certain persons (limited to four), who, having held high judicial See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office or practised at the See also:

bar for not less than fifteen years, sit as members of the See also:

House of Lords to adjudicate in cases before that House in its legal capacity, and also to aid the judicial See also:

COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee of the Privy See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

Council in See also:

HEARING (formed from the verb " to hear," O. Eng. hyran, heron, &c., a common Teutonic verb; cf. Ger. Koren, Dutch hooren, &c.; the O. Tent. form is seen in Goth. hausjan; the initial h makes any connexion with " ear," Lat. audire, or Gr. &Kobew very doub

hearing appeals. Of the four lords of appeal in ordinary one is usually appointed from the Irish See also:

BENCH (an O.E. and Eng. form of a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Bank, Dan. baenk and the Eng. doublet " bank ")

bench or bar and one from See also:

Scotland. Their See also:

SALARY

salary is £6000 a See also:

YEAR

year. They hold office on the same conditions as other See also:

JUDGES, THE BOOK OF

judges. By the Appellate See also:

Jurisdiction See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act 1876, under which they are appointed, lords of appeal in ordinary are, by virtue of and according to the date of their See also:

APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment, entitled during See also:

LIFE

life to See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank as barons and during the See also:

time that they continue in office are entitled to a See also:

WRIT (O. Eng. gewrit, writ, from writan, to write)

writ of See also:

SUMMONS (Fr. semonce, from semonner or semondre, Lat. summonere, summonitio)

summons to attend, and to sit and See also:

VOTE

vote in the House of Lords. They are life peers only.

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