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Definition of Lord High Chancellor
1. Noun. The highest officer of the Crown who is head of the judiciary and who presides in the House of Lords.
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Generic synonyms: Cabinet Minister
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lord High Chancellor
Literary usage of Lord High Chancellor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Thomas Jodrell Phillips, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1847)
"... That, for simplifying the proceedings under the said act, and rendering the
same inexpensive, it should be lawful for the Lord High Chancellor, ..."
2. On Parliamentary Government in England: Its Origin, Development, and by Alpheus Todd (1869)
"THE Lord High Chancellor. The authority which appertains to this high ...
His proper title is 'Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Ireland,' the great ..."
3. Biographia juridica. A biographical dictionary of the judges of England from by Edward Foss (1870)
"He died, at the age of ninety-one, in 1776, having lived to see his son elevated
to the peerage and to the dignity of lord high chancellor of Great Britain. ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas and by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Henry Blackstone, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1827)
"... of Hilary Term 1793, Lord LOUGHBOROUGH, LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of this Court, was
appointed Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. On Monday Feb. 4. ..."
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