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PATENTS OF PRECEDENCE . A patent of precedence is a grant to an individual by letters patent (q v.) of a higher socialor professional position than the precedence to which his ordinary rank entitles him.. The principal
barrister
parliament , vacated his seat, a patent of precedence was resorted to as a means of conferring similar marks of honour on distinguished counsel without any such disability attached to it. The patents obtained by Mansfield, Erskine, Scott and Brougham
audience
Justice
Phillimore was, on his appointment as a judge of the queen's bench division (in 1897) the only holder of a patent of precedence at the bar, except Serjeant Simon, who died in that year, and who was the last of the serjeants who held such a patent. See also PRECEDENCE.In Canada patents of precedence are granted both by the governor -general and by the lieutenant
governor of the provinces under provincial legislation which has been declared intra vires. (Att. Gen. for Canada v. Att. Gen. for Ontario, 1898, A.C. p. 247; Todd, Parliamentary Govt. in Canada, 2nd ed. p. 333).See Pulling's Order of the Coif. End of Article: PATENTS OF PRECEDENCE If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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