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See also:PATENTS OF See also:PRECEDENCE . A patent of precedence is a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant to an individual by letters patent (q v.) of a higher socialor professional position than the precedence to which his See also:ordinary See also:rank entitles him.. The See also:principal instance in See also:modern times of patents of grants of this description has been the grant of precedence to members of the See also:English See also:bar. In the days when See also:acceptance of the rank of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's counsel not only precluded a See also:barrister from appearing against the See also:Crown, but, if he was a member of See also:parliament, vacated his seat, a patent of precedence was resorted to as a means of conferring similar marks of See also:honour on distinguished counsel without any such See also:disability attached to it. The patents obtained by See also:Mansfield, See also:Erskine, See also:Scott and See also:Brougham were granted on this ground. After the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the See also:coif lost its exclusive right 'of See also:audience in the See also:court of See also:common pleas, it became customary to grant patents of precedence to a number of the serjeants-at-See also:law, giving them rank immediately after counsel of the Crown already created and before those of subsequent creation. Mr See also:Justice See also:Phillimore was, on his See also:appointment as a See also:judge of the See also:queen's See also:bench See also:division (in 1897) the only holder of a patent of precedence at the bar, except See also:Serjeant See also:Simon, who died in that See also:year, and who was the last of the serjeants who held such a patent. See also PRECEDENCE.
In See also:Canada patents of precedence are granted both by the See also:governor-See also:general and by the See also:lieutenant-governor of the provinces under provincial legislation which has been declared See also:intra vires. (Att. Gen. for Canada v. Att. Gen. for See also:Ontario, 1898, A.C. p. 247; Todd, See also:Parliamentary Govt. in Canada, 2nd ed. p. 333).
See Pulling's Order of the Coif.
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