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词条 High Court of Chivalry
释义

  1. History

  2. Sittings

  3. Appeals from the court

  4. Composition

     Judges  Lieutenant, Assessor and Surrogate to the Earl Marshal  Joint Register to the High Court of Chivalry  Cryer to the High Court of Chivalry 

  5. See also

  6. References

  7. External links

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}}Her Majesty's High Court of Chivalry is a civil law (i.e., non common law) court in English and Welsh law with jurisdiction over matters of heraldry. The court has been in existence since the fourteenth century; however, it rarely sits.[1] The sole judge is now the hereditary Earl Marshal of England, the Duke of Norfolk, though if not a professional lawyer, he normally appoints a professional lawyer as his lieutenant or surrogate.[1]

In Scotland, these types of cases are heard in the Court of the Lord Lyon, which is a standing civil and criminal court, with its own judge - the Lord Lyon King of Arms and its own procurator fiscal (public prosecutor) under the Scottish legal system.[2]

History

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The court was historically known as the Curia Militaris, the Court of the Constable and the Marshal, or the Earl Marshal's Court.[3]

Since it was created in the fourteenth century the court has always sat when required, except for the short time between 1634 and its temporary abolition by the Long Parliament in 1640 when it sat on a regular basis. During this time the court heard well over a thousand cases, of which evidence survives from 738 cases. [4]

Sittings

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The court was last convened in 1954[1] for the case of Manchester Corporation v Manchester Palace of Varieties Ltd;[5] prior to this, the Court had not sat for two centuries and before hearing the case, the Court first had to rule whether it still existed.[6] The proceedings opened with the reading of various letters patents in order to make clear that the Duke of Norfolk was indeed Hereditary Earl Marshal and that he had appointed Lord Goddard as his lieutenant in the court. It also had ruled that the Earl Marshal was allowed to sit in judgement without the Lord High Constable of England, an office which until 1521 was also held as a hereditary dignity by the Dukes of Buckingham.[1] The case itself was that the Palace theatre had been displaying the arms of the Manchester Corporation (now Manchester City Council) both inside and on its seal and this usage implied that it was linked with the city's council. The Corporation had requested that the theatre stop using it, but this request had been refused. The court ruled in favour of the Corporation.[1]

More recently, in Oct 2012, Aberystwyth Town Council declared its intention to take legal action against a Facebook page displaying unauthorised use of its coat of arms: these were subsequently removed.[7]

Appeals from the court

In 1832, the Privy Council Appeals Act 1832 made the Privy Council the appeal court for cases heard by the High Court of Chivalry.[8] From 1 February 1833, following the passage of the Judicial Committee Act 1833, appeals have been heard directly by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.[9] Prior to that, and in common with the admiralty and ecclesiastical courts, appeals from the Court of Chivalry were made to the Crown in Chancery, with appeals being heard by Commissioners appointed by letters patent under the Great Seal in each case.[10] Sittings by these Commissioners became known as the High Court of Delegates by the time of the 1832 Act.[11][12]

Composition

Judges

Historically the court had two hereditary judges - the Duke of Norfolk as Earl Marshal of England, and the Duke of Buckingham as Lord High Constable of England - but in 1521 Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham was convicted of treason, stripped of his titles and offices, and executed. Since then the office of Lord High Constable of England has only been appointed to perform ceremonial duties during a Coronation[13] and there has only been the Earl Marshal acting as the sole judge.

Lieutenant, Assessor and Surrogate to the Earl Marshal

  • Sir Edmund Isham Bt DCL 1728-1772
  • The Lord Goddard 24 October 1954 – 1959
  • George Squibb, LVO QC Norfolk Herald Extraordinary 1976-1994

Joint Register to the High Court of Chivalry

  • Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Anthony Wagner KCB Garter Principal King of Arms 27 October 1954–1995
  • Wilfred Maurice Phillips (Notary Public), 27 October 1954.

Cryer to the High Court of Chivalry

  • A.H. Smith, 1954

See also

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  • Canadian Heraldic Authority
  • Chivalry
  • Courts of England and Wales
  • Law of Arms
  • Scrope v. Grosvenor
  • Time immemorial
  • Warbelton v. Gorges

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References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.theheraldrysociety.com/articles/college_of_arms/the_last_case_heard_in_the_high_court_of_chivalry.htm |title=A Brief Account of the Proceedings in the High Court of Chivalry on 21st December, 1954 |website=theheraldrysociety.com |publisher=The Heraldry Society | accessdate=6 October 2016}}
2. ^Innes of Learney & Innes of Edingight, p.7
3. ^G.D. Squibb, The High Court of Chivalry: A Study of the Civil Law in England, Oxford, 1959, pp.2-3; The Law of Arms in Mediaeval England
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/historycultures/departments/history/research/projects/court-of-chivalry/seventeenth-century/index.aspx |title=The High Court of Chivalry in the early seventeenth century |website=birmingham.ac.uk |publisher=University of Birmingham | accessdate=6 October 2016}}
5. ^Manchester Corporation v Manchester Palace of Varieties Ltd, P 133; [1955] 1 All ER 387
6. ^G.D. Squibb, The High Court of Chivalry: A Study of the Civil Law in England, Oxford, 1959
7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/i/27748/ |title='Disgusting' sex antics web page sparks fury |publisher=Cambrian News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150708020925/http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/i/27748/ |archive-date=8 July 2015 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }}
8. ^Privy Council Appeals Act 1832 (2 & 3 Will. 4 c. 92)
9. ^{{Cite legislation UK|act=Judicial Committee Act 1833|chapter=41|type=act|year=1833}}
10. ^Halsbury's Laws of England (3rd Edition), vol. 13, para. 1049
11. ^Privy Council Appeals Act 1832 (2 & 3 Will. 4 c. 92), preamble.
12. ^{{Cite web|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C224|title=Records of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council|last=|first=|date=2010|website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk|publisher=The National Archives|language=en-GB|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=23 May 2017|quote=The Privy Council Appeals Act 1832 abolished the High Court of Delegates and transferred its powers to hear appeals in ecclesiastical and admiralty cases to the King in Council. The Council had previously served only as a court of final resort from the Delegates under the infrequently invoked procedure of petitioning for commissions of review.}}
13. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/1/6/section/III |title=Coronation Oath Act 1688: Section III. Form of Oath and Administration thereof |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=The National Archives| accessdate=6 October 2016}}

External links

  • About the Court of Chivalry
  • Regulation of Heraldry in England: the Middle Ages
  • Cases in the Court of Chivalry
  • A short piece about the Courts of Chivalry
  • University of Birmingham Index of Cases
  • The High Court of Chivalry in the early seventeenth century
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