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Lord

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

In English law

A title honor or nobility belonging properly to degree of baron, but applied also to the peerage. as in the expression “the house lords.”

1 Bi. Comm. 396-400.

A title of ofice, as lord mayor, lord missioner, ete.

Tn feudal taw

A feudal superior or prictor; ons of whom a fee or estate is