Re: kinship terms (Henaudute)
| From: | Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 16, 2001, 7:59 |
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> Anton Sherwood scripsit:
> > . . . English baronies-by-writ; . . .
John Cowan wrote:
> Are there any other kinds any more?
When a Parliament is convened, the Crown writes to all the Lords
something like "You, John Blank, are summoned to Parliament as Lord
Foo." If John Blank did not already bear the title Lord Foo, that
summons creates it; this is a barony by writ, with the inheritance rules
I described before.
Most peerages are created by letters patent which specify the
inheritance rule, which since the Tudors(?) is usually "to the heirs
male of his body [i.e. sons^n] lawfully begotten."
Finally, all but two(?) of the non-royal peers created since 1963
were/are life barons. Before the Peerage Act 1963 there was some doubt
whether life barons could vote in the House of Lords.
--
Anton Sherwood -- http://www.ogre.nu/
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