Lords Commissioners
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In English Jaw. 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 groat seal is put into commission, the persons charged wilh it are called “commissioners” or “lords commissioners” of the great seal. Mozley & Whitley.