warrant from the signet office, issues the pri seal, which is an authority to the lord chancellor to pass the great seal where the nature of the grant requires it. But the privy seals for money begin in the treasury, whence the first warrant issues, countersigned by the lord treasurer. The lord privy seal is a member of the cabinet council. Enc. Lond.—Lord warden of Cinque Ports. See CINQUE PorTs.—Lords appellants, Five peers who for a time superseded Richard JI. in his government, and whom, after a brief control of the government, he in turn superseded in 1397, and put the survivors of them to death. Richard II.'s eighteen commissioners (twelve peers and six commoners took their place, as an embryo privy coun acting with full powers, during the parliamentary recess. Brown.—Lo commissioners. In English law. When a high public office in the state, formerly executed by an individual, is put into commission, the persons charged with the commission are called “lords commissioners,” or sometimes “lords” or “commissioners” simply. Thus, we have, in lieu of the lord treasurer and lord high admiral of former times, the lords commissioners of the treasury, and the lords commissioners of the admiralty ; and, whenever the great seal is put into commission, the rsons charged with it are called ‘‘commissioners” or “lords commissioners” of the great seal. Mozley & Whitley —Lord’s day. A name sometimes given to Sunday. Co. Litt. 135.—Lords justices of appeal. In English law. The title of the ordina ey of the court of appeal, by Jud. Act 1877, § 4. Prior -to the judicature acts, there were two “lords justices of appeal in chancery,” to whom an sppeal lay from a vice-chancellor, by 14 & 15 Vict. c. 83.—Lords marchers. Those noblemen who lived on the marches of Wales or Scotland, who in times past had their laws and power of life and death, like petty kings. Abolished by 27 Hen. VIII. c. 26, and 6 Edw. VI. c. 10. arton.—Lords of appeal. Those members of the house of lords of whom at Jeast three must be present for the hearing and determination of ee They are the lord chancellor, the lords of appeal in ordinary, and such peers of parliament as hold, or have held, high judicial offices, such as ex-chancellors and judges of the superior courts in Great Britain apd Ireland. App. Jur.. Act 1876, §§ 5, 25.—Lords of appeal in ordinary. These are appointed, with a salary of £6, a year, to aid the house of lords in the hearing of appeals. ‘They rank as barons for life. but sit and vote in the house of lords during the tenure of their office only. App. Jur. Act 1876, § 6.—Lords of erection. the Reformation in Scotland. the king, as proprietor of benefices formerly held by abbots and priors, gave them out in temporal lordships to favorites, who were termed “lords of erection.” Wharton.—Lords of parliament. Those who have seats in the house of lords. During bankruptcy, peers are disqualified from sitting or voting in the house of lords. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 50.—Lords of regality. In Scotch law. Per sons to whom rights of civil and criminal jurisdiction were given by the crown.—Lords or dainers. Lords appointed in 1312, in the reign of Edward II., for the control of the sovereign and the court party, and for the general reform and better government of the country. Brown. —Lords spiritual. The archbishops and bisuops who have seats in the house of lorda— Lords temporal. Those lay peers who have seats in the house of lords. In English law. Dominion, manor, seigniory, domain; also a title of honor used to a nobleman not being a. duke. It is also the customary titulary ayppellation of the Judges and some other persons in authority aud office.