Example sentences of "of the court of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As instances of mockery we can cite the reaction of the court of Navarre to the Pageant of the Nine Worthies ( Love 's Labour 's Lost , V.ii.484ff. ) , or that of Athens to ‘ Pyramus and Thisbe ’ ( Midsummer Night 's Dream , V.i.106ff . ) . |
| 2 | By this he was referring to the chief justices and three judges of the Court of Common Pleas and the Court of King 's Bench and the chief baron and three barons of the Court of Exchequer , being the three courts of common law . |
| 3 | Grilly 's attempts to adjudicate the question had failed , and Pierre Flote was deputed to bring the affair to the cognizance of the court of France . |
| 4 | The Windsor whose marriage has caused more intrigue than most poked fun at the speculation with his light-hearted remarks as president of the Court of Governors of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre . |
| 5 | She was co-opted to the Glamorgan county education committee , and became a member of the court of governors of the University of Wales . |
| 6 | THE president of the Court of Governors of the University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , Sir Melvyn Rosser , has joined the board of Menter a Busnes , the agency that aims to make Welsh speakers more enterprising in business . |
| 7 | He also supervised alterations at Woking Palace from 1515 , and in 1516 he and Henry Redman designed the west side of the court of Eton College , including Lupton 's tower . |
| 8 | Others , like the establishment of the Court of Wards , were permanent . |
| 9 | But , even so , thanks in part to the new legislation , in part to the administrative machinery of the Court of Wards , and in part to the provision that monastic lands be sold as tenancies-in-chief , the income from feudal dues rose from £4,434 in 1542 to an average of £7,700 per annum in the first three years of Edward VI . |
| 10 | In the reign of Edward VI the income of the Court of Wards had averaged £11,000 per annum , rising to more than £15,000 per annum under Mary . |
| 11 | At the end of the sixteenth century William Cecil , Lord Burghley , was Lord Treasurer , Master of the Court of Wards , master of the game in Husburne , Hampshire , steward of Bristol , steward of Westminster , steward of the Bishopric of Coventry and Lichfield , steward of the lands of the Bishop of Winchester in Hampshire and Wiltshire , steward of the possessions of Trinity College , Cambridge , master of the game to the Bishop of Chichester , and steward of the lands of the Bishop of St David 's . |
| 12 | This charge may not be true ; but there is no doubt that a later President , the Earl of Bridgewater , took an entrance fee of £100 from new attorneys in the reign of Charles L42 Two men , Edward More and William Hickman , offered £1 , 1,000 for the office of Receiver of the Court of Wards . |
| 13 | He was disappointed at being denied the mastership of the Court of Wards , but his ambitions were partially satisfied with the captaincy of the Band of the King 's Gentlemen Pensioners in 1635 . |
| 14 | In Re Faure Electric Accumulator Company , for example , Kay J stated that ‘ to apply to directors the strict rules of the Court of Chancery with respect to ordinary trustees might fetter their action to an extent which would be exceedingly disadvantageous to the companies they represent ’ . |
| 15 | The dispute was referred to the King , James I. James I decided in favour of the Court of Chancery and upheld the validity of the common injunction . |
| 16 | On April 21 another FIS leader , Abdelkader Hachani , was sentenced by the accusation chamber of the Court of Algiers to remain in preventive detention , having been charged with " incitement … to crimes against state security " . |
| 17 | Any rule directly or indirectly restricting solicitors ' freedom to undertake all the actions necessary for the preparation and presentation of cases will need the approval of both the Secretary of State and the Lord President of the Court of Session . |
| 18 | William Dunlop appealed to the Inner House of the Court of Session which reversed the decision in his favour . |
| 19 | The Crown applied to the Outer House of the Court of Session to quash the ruling , contending that the evidence it had tried to present had to be deemed relevant , even if not determinative or of very great weight . |
| 20 | In a recent case , the Second Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session has decided , in an appeal on the basis of law equally applicable in England and Wales , that a minority shareholder is entitled to an order to wind up the company on the just and equitable ground under s 122(1) ( g ) of the Insolvency Act 1986 , even though he is not entitled to a share purchase order because of unfair prejudice in terms of s 459 , CA 1985 ( see Jesner v Jarrad Properties Ltd , The Times , 26 October 1992 ) . |
| 21 | When political considerations took primacy over whether qualifications it is not surprising that some of the appointments were given to candidates ill-suited to the duties they were called upon to perform , such as the Lanarkshire freeholder appointed macer of the Court of Session who , according to James Boswell , ‘ had a constant hoarseness , so that he could scarcely be heard when he called the causes and the lawyers , and was indeed as unfit for a crier of court as a man could be . |
| 22 | In accordance with the Sheriff Courts ( Scotland ) Act 1971 , the Secretary of State for Scotland asked two senior Scottish judges ( the Lord President of the Court of Session and the Lord Justice Clerk ) to investigate and they reported their finding of misbehaviour which , as for Circuit judges and Recorders in England and Wales , was a ground for dismissal . |
| 23 | , George Hay ( 1821–1875 ) , Episcopalian priest , scholar , and printer , was born 4 August 1821 in Edinburgh , the ninth child in a family of four sons and six daughters of John Hay Forbes ( later Lord Medwyn , q.v. ) , judge of the Court of Session , and his wife Louisa , daughter of Sir Alexander Cumming Gordon of Altyre . |
| 24 | , James Latham Mcdiarmid , Lord Clyde ( 1898–1975 ) , lord justice-general of Scotland and lord president of the Court of Session , was born 30 October 1898 at 17 Heriot Row , Edinburgh , the elder son ( there were no daughters ) of James Avon Clyde [ q.v. ] , later lord justice-general of Scotland , and his wife Anna Margaret McDiarmid , daughter of Professor Peter Wallwork Latham of Cambridge [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | Last autumn , lord president of the Court of Session , suddenly announced he was forming a working party under to examine how to improve the handling of commercial cases and to make their hearing speedier and more convenient to litigants . |
| 26 | Lord Emslie , Lord President of the Court of Session , has appointed Sheriff Principal F. W. F. O'Brien , QC , Sheriff Principal of North Strathclyde , as the new Chairman of the Sheriff Court Rules Council . |
| 27 | As a fellow Chairman of these Tribunals I find myself in general agreement with him , although is until some way is found to eliminate obviously frivolous appeals from the Local Appeal Tribunal 's decisions I doubt the practicality of having appeals to a Tribunal of Commissioners and blanch at the thought of their Lordships of the Court of Session 's comments if asked to deal with some of the material placed before a single Commissioner at present . |
| 28 | It may also be that the agent would be asked to advise on the cost , and , as with civil legislation , costs in parliamentary matters can in appropriate cases be taxed under the House of Commons Costs Taxation Act , 1847 , and the 1849 Act on similar lines for the House of Lords , the only difference in Scotland being that taxation is done by the Auditor of the Court of Session . |
| 29 | 19 Lord The Lord Ordinary having considered the Petition and proceedings , no Answers having been lodged , Nominates and Appoints to be curator bonis to designed in the Petition with the usual powers and decerns ; authorises the said after finding caution to enter on the duties of his office upon a certified copy of this interlocutor with a schedule of the curatory estate annexed thereto ; and that upon condition that before issue of a certified copy interlocutor of his appointment he shall lodge in the hands of the Accountant of Court a bond binding himself to lodge Accounts annually with the Accountant of Court and otherwise to conduct the affairs of the curatory estate in all respects in conformity with the laws and practice of Scotland ; to appear before the Lords of Council and Session in Scotland to answer for his conduct as curator aforesaid or in connection with any matter arising out of said curatory ; to submit himself to and prorogate the jurisdiction of the Court of Session for said purposes and to assign an address in Scotland where he may be cited , and decerns ( * Finds the expenses of this application and procedure following thereon to form a proper charge upon the curatory estate , and remits the account thereof , when lodged , to the Auditor of Court for taxation ) . |
| 30 | Following a report made to the President of the Court of Session , television is being introduced in a controlled way in the higher courts in Scotland . |