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The Great Seal of France. The French "Keeper of the Seals" (Garde des Sceaux) is a title held by the Minister of Justice.Formerly, as Keeper of the Seals of France, this title belonged to the Chancellor, the ancien régime counterpart of the minister of justice.
The office holder is the keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, the seal used by the sitting monarch to sign acts of the Scottish Parliament and permits the keeper to make decisions on behalf of the monarch. [1] The incumbent keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland is John Swinney since 8 May 2024. [2]
The holder being a churchman, he was not only engaged in the business of his diocese, but was sometimes away from England. Consequently, it became not unusual to place the personal custody of the great seal in the hands of a vice-chancellor or keeper; this was also the practice followed during a temporary vacancy in the chancellorship. [2]
Commissioners to use the Great Seal. Viscount Mandeville; Duke of Lennox; Earl of Arundel; 1621 1621 John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, Lord Keeper 1621 1625 Thomas Coventry, Lord Keeper (Lord Coventry from 1628) 1625 1640 Charles I (1625–1649) Lord Finch, Lord Keeper [b] 1640 1641 Lord Lyttleton of Mounslow, Lord Keeper (Took Great Seal to ...
The seal is usually formally entrusted upon an office-holder to act as keeper of the seal. This keeper may be a separate office but was also usually combined with that of the chancellor . Nowadays, the great seal is usually entrusted upon a minister, particularly a minister of justice .
The office of Lord Privy Seal, unlike those of leader of the Lords or Commons, is eligible for a ministerial salary under the Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975. [1] The office does not confer membership of the House of Lords , leading to Ernest Bevin 's remark on holding this office that he was "neither a Lord , nor a Privy , nor a Seal ".
The Great Seal of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Seala Mòr na h-Alba; also the Scottish Seal; formally the Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept and made use of in place of the Great Seal of Scotland) is a seal used by the first minister of Scotland to seal letters patent signed by the monarch giving royal assent to bills passed by the Scottish Parliament.
Keeper of the Great Seal can refer to: Keeper of the Great Seal of Canada; Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland; Keeper of the Great Seal of the State of Illinois;