| 单词 | law-lord |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslaw-lord law-lord n. (a) one of the members of the House of Lords qualified to take part in its judicial business; (b) in Scotland colloquial, one of those judges who have by courtesy the style of ‘Lord’. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > in House of Lords law-lord1773 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > Member of Parliament > types of member of House of Lords law-lord1773 lay lord1863 backwoodsman1909 overlord1951 backwoods peer1956 1773 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 444 The measure..will not be opposed in council by any great law-lord in the kingdom. 1883 Freeman in Longman's Mag. II. 482 There has been something like the revival of a kind of professional peerage in the persons of certain of the law-lords. 1901 Dundee Advertiser 12 Apr. ‘Lord Newbottle’—there never was such a title in the Scottish Peerage, though it was a law-lord's title. 1958 Times 24 July 8/7 The sons and daughters of law lords and life peers..shall be treated for their style, rank, dignity, and precedence in the same way as the wives..of hereditary barons. 1972 Mod. Law Rev. 35 i. 63 Two Law Lords with first instance experience in the Divorce Division. < as lemmas |
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