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The British peerage is governed by a body of law that has developed over several centuries. Much of this law has been established by a few important cases, and some of the more significant of these are addressed in this article.
The British peerage is governed by a body of law that has developed over several centuries. Much of this law has been established by a few important cases...
not the former). British peerage title holders are termed peers of the Realm. The peerage's fundamental roles are ones of law making and governance, with...
The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. From that year, the Peerages of England...
The hereditary peers form part of the peerage in the United Kingdom. As of August 2023, there are 805 hereditary peers: 30 dukes (including six royal...
The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five Peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great...
The most common use of the term is in the case of English peerage dignities. Most such peerages pass to heirs-male, but the ancient baronies created by...
United Kingdom. As a result, the power to create law life peers lapsed, although the validity of life peerages created thereunder remains intact. ‡ former...
Irish law, but the titles were used in Jacobite circles in Continental Europe and recognised by France, Spain and the Papacy. Jacobite peerages ceased...
The Peerage of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Moraireachd na h-Alba; Scots: Peerage o Scotland) is one of the five divisions of peerages in the United Kingdom...
to as Law Lords). The Crown, as fount of honour, creates peerages of two types, being hereditary or for life. In the early days of the peerage, the sovereign...
The privilege of peerage is the body of special privileges belonging to members of the British peerage. It is distinct from parliamentary privilege, which...
The Peerage of Ireland consists of those titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland, or later by...
hereditary peerages to be disclaimed. A disclaimed peerage remains without a holder until the death of the disclaimer, and his heir succeeds to the peerage. The...
Law Lords created under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876. However hereditary peers with the rank of viscount or higher holding also a life peerage...
British peerage, a system of nobility found in the United Kingdom, stretches over the last thousand years. The current form of the British peerage has been...
a life peerage List of hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 List of law life peerages (1876–2005) List of life peerages (1377–1876)...
The Succession to Peerages and Baronetcies Bill is a proposed law of the Parliament of the United Kingdom introduced on 20 November 2023 by Lord Northbrook...
life peerages (2010–present) List of law life peerages (created under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876) All life baronies are in the peerage of the...
lists all dukedoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Edward...
lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom. The...
title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created twice and de facto under PeerageLaw a third time. The first creation is in abeyance of the law, the second...
Latymer has been created, by the definitions of modern peeragelaw, four times in the Peerage of England. Of these, one (of Snape) was restored from abeyance...
these titles do not in law hold the substantive title. There are several different kinds of courtesy titles in the British peerage system. If a peer of...
viscountcies in the peerages of Britain and Ireland, including the England, the Scotland, the Ireland, the Great Britain and the Peerage of the United Kingdom...
The Kazoku (華族, "Magnificent/Exalted lineage") was the hereditary peerage of the Empire of Japan, which existed between 1869 and 1947. It was formed by...
This is an index of Welsh peers and baronets whose primary peerage, life peerage, and baronetcy titles include a Welsh place-name origin or its territorial...
In the Peerage of England, the Peerage of Great Britain, the Peerage of Ireland and the Peerage of the United Kingdom (but not in the Peerage of Scotland)...
is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 19 April 1802 for the lawyer, judge and politician Sir Edward Law, Lord Chief Justice...
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