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(1) The period during which Oliver Cromwell ruled in England. (2) Also the office of protector. (3) The relation of the English sovereign, till the year 1864, to the Ionian Islands. Wharton. … [Read more...] about PROTECTORATE

The decrees of provincial synods held under divers archbishops of Canterbury from Stephen Langton, in the reign of Henry III., to Henry Chichele, in the reign of Henry V., and adopted also by the province of York in the reign of Henry VI. Wharton. … [Read more...] about PROVINCIAL CONSTITUTIONS

(A) mar. law. A writing, attested by a justice of the peace or a consul, drawn by the master of a vessel, stating the severity of a voyage by which a ship has suffered, and showing it was not owing to the neglect or misconduct of the master. (B) legislation. A declaration made by one or more members of a legislative body that they do not agree with some act or resolution of the … [Read more...] about PROTEST

In English law. The several arch-episcopal courts in the two ecclesiastical provinces of England. … [Read more...] about PROVINCIAL COURTS

L. Latin: Protesting. The emphatic word formerly used in pleading by way of protestation. 3 Bl. Comm. 311. See PROTESTATION. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition pleading. According to Lord Coke, Co. Litt. 124, it is an exclusion of a conclusion. It has been more fully defined to be a saving to the party who takes it, from being concluded by any matter alleged or … [Read more...] about PROTESTANDO