Letters patent (plural form for singular and plural) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, president...

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...

regias literas per reg. lit. etc. by royal letters by letters patent; of academic degrees: awarded by letters patent from the King/Queen, rather than by a...

available for public inspection). It is a shortened version of the term letters patent, which was an open document or instrument issued by a monarch or government...

12 November 2022[update]. It lists those places that have been granted city status by letters patent or royal charter. There are currently a total of 76 such cities in the...

The expression 'Hong Kong Letters Patent' is most commonly used to refer to the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917, one of the principal constitutional documents...

Letters Patent, 1947 (formally, the Letters Patent Constituting the Office of Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada), are letters patent signed...

York: Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-19-920502-7. 59–61. Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1467–77, pg. 190. Sutton and Visser-Fuchs, "A 'Most Benevolent Queen;'"Laynesmith...

constitutional instruments were the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1960, the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1982, the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1991 (No. 1), and the Hong Kong Royal...

the peerage, as with life peers. Peerages may be created by means of letters patent, but the granting of new hereditary peerages has largely dwindled; only...

monarchs (by letters patent). The title is granted by the reigning monarch, who is the fount of all honours, through the issuing of letters patent as an expression...

The Letters Patent Constituting the Office of Governor-General of New Zealand is a royal decree and a part of the uncodified New Zealand constitution....

The Letters Patent establishing the Province of South Australia, dated 19 February 1836 and formally titled "Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the...

a special status granted by the monarch, usually by the issuing of letters patent. Between the 16th century and 1888, city status was associated with...

confidential. The Order of Australia was established on 14 February 1975 by letters patent of Queen Elizabeth II, acting as Queen of Australia, and countersigned...

city) in six English towns and granted them city status by issuing letters patent. A city with a cathedral is often termed a cathedral city. City status...

creators of unique culinary dishes. In England, grants in the form of letters patent were issued by the sovereign to inventors who petitioned and were approved:...

A land patent is a form of letters patent assigning official ownership of a particular tract of land that has gone through various legally-prescribed processes...

designated as esquire on their letters patent. In the United States, esquire is generally used by lawyers. In letters, these lawyers will ask to be addressed...

The Waldo Patent, a letters patent also known as the Muscongus Patent or the Lincolnshire Patent, was a document granting title to 36 square miles (9,300 ha)...

While letters patent issued by the Monarch under the terms of the Life Peerages Act 1958 just name the recipient of the life peerage, letters patent issued...

Samantha Mostyn), in accordance with the Australian constitution and letters patent from his mother and predecessor, Queen Elizabeth II. Similarly, in each...

claims under the Third Succession Act. Through Northumberland, Edward's letters patent in favour of Jane was signed by the entire privy council, bishops, and...

under the authority of section 2 of the Constitution and regulated by letters patent issued by the monarch. When a new governor-general is to be appointed...

in letters patent. Individuals holding the title of princess will usually also be granted the style of Her Royal Highness (HRH). The current letters patent...

honours, peerages are affirmed by letters patent affixed with the Great Seal of the Realm. In addition to letters patent, peers who are to sit in Parliament...

City of the Tribes'). Belfast was, in 1888, created a 'city' by Royal Letters Patent. In most European languages, there is no distinction between "city"...

are persons and families who have been ennobled by letters patent. The oldest known such letters patent were issued in the middle of the 14th century, during...

The Académie Royale de Danse, founded by Letters Patent on the initiative of King Louis XIV of France in March 1661, was the first dance institution established...

A papal bull is a type of public decree, letters patent, or charter issued by a pope of the Catholic Church. It is named after the leaden seal (bulla)...