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Chief Court Astrologer (陰陽頭, onmyō no kami) —the first-class officer of the Bureau of Court Astrology (陰陽寮, onmyō ryō), requiring the Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade. Chief Court Calendar-maker ( 暦博士 , reki hakase ) —a person recognized by the state as a learned person in charge of creating the state calendar.
If there are two Justices of the Supreme Court with the same surname, then the junior Justice will take a territorial designation (i.e. "of [place]") in their title. When two or more Justices are referred at the same time in a law report, their post-nominal letters become SCJJ. [3]
Provincial titles are those with authority over a constituent state, such as a United States governor. Regional titles are those with authority over multiple constituent states, such as a federal judge. Courtly titles have no sovereign power of their own but are granted high prestige by, and are possibly able to exert influence over, a head of ...
Puisne judge and puisne justice (/ ˈ p juː n i /) are terms for an ordinary judge or a judge of lesser rank of a particular court.The term comes from a combination of the two French words, puis (since, later) and né (born) which have been combined as French: puisné or puîné; meaning "junior".
This Court Titles category is designed to list Offices and other Titles that signify Service to a royal or aristocratic court: either which are held by serving courtiers in a royal, aristocratic, ecclesiastical, military or other household styled a Court
A junior barrister is a barrister who has not yet attained the rank of King's Counsel. [1] Although the term is archaic and not commonly used, junior barristers (or "juniors") can also be referred to as utter barristers derived from "outer barristers" or barristers of the outer bar, [ 2 ] in distinction to King's Counsel at the inner bar.
The Qing imperial court also granted titles to princes of its protectorates and tributary states, mainly in Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet. The vassal titles were generally inherited in perpetuity without downgrading. The ranks roughly mirrored those of the imperial clan, with a few differences:
The term swain, from Old Norse sveinn, originally meant young man or servant, even as a Norwegian court title) entered English c.1150 as "young man attendant upon a knight" i.e. squire, or junior rank, as in boatswain and coxswain, but now usually means a boyfriend (since 1585) or a country lad (farm laborer since 1579; especially a young ...