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  2. Probate - Wikipedia

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    An executor is the legal personal representative of a deceased person's estate. The appointment of an executor only becomes effective after the death of the testator. After the testator dies, the person named in the will as executor can decline or renounce the position, and if so should quickly notify the probate court accordingly.

  3. Titles Deprivation Act 1917 - Wikipedia

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    The Act allowed the King to establish a committee of the Privy Council, which was to include at least two members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.The committee was empowered to take evidence and report the names of British peers or princes "who have, during the present war, borne arms against His Majesty or His Allies, or who have adhered to His Majesty's enemies".

  4. False titles of nobility - Wikipedia

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    The opinion of the Lord Lyon has been criticised [by whom?] as the UK government allows the usage of Manorial Titles in British passports of the form: "THE HOLDER IS THE LORD OF THE MANOR/LAIRD OF [X]" (brackets added). [7] However, as a matter of Scots property law, souvenir plots cannot competently create a real right of ownership in Scots ...

  5. Administration (probate law) - Wikipedia

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    The more important cases of grants of special letters of administration include the following: Administration cum testamento annexo, where the deceased has left a will but has appointed no executor to it, or the executor appointed has died or refuses to act. In this case the court will make the grant to the person, usually the residuary legatee ...

  6. Abdication - Wikipedia

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    The word abdication is derived from the Latin abdicatio meaning to disown or renounce (ab, away from, and dicare, to proclaim). [1] In its broadest sense abdication is the act of renouncing and resigning from any formal office, but it is applied especially to the supreme office of state.

  7. Got Holiday Stress? Here Are 10 Nighttime Activities to Help ...

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    3. Limit non-sleep activities. From our phones, friends, and work, to our favorite Netflix shows, we receive a lot of stimulation during the day.

  8. Letters patent (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    Letters patent issued by Queen Victoria in 1900, creating the office of Governor-General of Australia as part of the process of federation.. Letters patent (always in the plural; abbreviated to LsP by the Crown Office), in the United Kingdom, are legal instruments generally issued by the monarch granting an office, right, title (in the peerage and baronetage), or status to a person (and ...

  9. Oath of Allegiance (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    King John signing Magna Carta at Runnymede. The Oath of Allegiance (Judicial or Official Oath) is a promise to be loyal to the British monarch, and their heirs and successors, sworn by certain public servants in the United Kingdom, and also by newly naturalised subjects in citizenship ceremonies.