The Court of the Lord Lyon, or Lyon Court, is a standing court of law, based in New Register House in Edinburgh, which regulates heraldry in Scotland...
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The Right Honourable the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the head of Lyon Court, is the most junior of the Great Officers of State in Scotland and is the Scottish...
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Lyon. The current Lord President of the Court of Session is Lord Carloway, who was appointed to the position on 18 December 2015. In June 2024 Lord Carloway...
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Procurator fiscal (category Prosecution services of the United Kingdom)
Arms. The Court has its own Procurator Fiscal, an independent official prosecutor.""History of the Court of the Lord Lyon". Court of the Lord Lyon. Archived...
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with the Court of the Lord Lyon and once had a chief who bore undifferenced arms, but does not have a chief currently recognised as such by Lyon Court. Before...
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Laird (category Society of Scotland)
of a single estate at the same time, as has been advertised by these companies. However, despite the law and guidance by the Court of the Lord Lyon,...
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Esquire (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Additaments". The Court of the Lord Lyon. Archived from the original on 12 May 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2013. "Lairds". The Court of the Lord Lyon. Archived...
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Charter, this being the status of a minor baron, recognised by the crown as noble, but not a peer. The Court of the Lord Lyon representing the monarch in Scotland...
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issues. The judiciary of Scotland, except the Lord Lyon King of Arms, are united under the leadership and authority of the Lord President and Lord Justice...
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the Outer House and of civil cases from the sheriff courts, the Court of the Lord Lyon, Scottish Land Court, and the Lands Tribunal for Scotland. The...
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types of cases are heard in the Court of the Lord Lyon, which is a standing civil and criminal court, with its own judge – the Lord Lyon King of Arms and...
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Clan Stewart (section Origins of the Clan)
clan. The clan is recognised by Court of the Lord Lyon; however, it does not have a Clan Chief recognised by the Lord Lyon King of Arms. Because the clan...
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the Scottish National Party have been admonished by the Court of the Lord Lyon for their non-authorised use of the banner. Despite such action, the flag...
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Scottish clan (redirect from Clans of Scotland)
the Court of the Lord Lyon, which regulates Scottish heraldry and coats of arms. Most clans have their own tartan patterns, usually dating from the 19th...
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Coronet (category Types of jewellery)
(PDF). Court of the Lord Lyon. Retrieved 14 October 2020. "Practical Heraldry for the Self-Isolator (5B)" (PDF). Court of the Lord Lyon. Retrieved 14 October...
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Pursuivant (redirect from Pursuivant of Arms)
Arms in London or the Court of the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh. In the mediaeval era, many great nobles employed their own officers of arms. Today, there still...
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common law courts to act and that the court that is so empowered does not now sit. In Scotland, Lord Lyon King of Arms is the judge of the Lyon Court, which...
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the first province to adopt one officially was Nova Scotia in 1956 (when registered at the Court of the Lord Lyon; adopted by law in 1963), and the most...
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Clan Anderson (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
the clan does not currently have a chief recognised by the Court of the Lord Lyon, it is therefore considered an armigerous clan. Variations of the surname...
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chiefs by the Court of the Lord Lyon or by the modern clan society itself (which is not the same entity as the ancient Clan MacLeod). Guy MacLeod of Talisker...
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by Scottish law of the Court of the Lord Lyon, there is no definitive authority on which surnames are regarded as Irish clans. Clans of Ireland is a modern...
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Scottish clan chief (redirect from Chief of the Name and Arms)
supersede or impair the jurisdiction or prerogative of the Lord Lyon King of Arms," which suggests that the legal authority of the Lyon Court remains intact...
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deemed "an heraldic device" by the Court of the Lord Lyon. Because heraldic devices must be authorised by this court, some clubs have been required to...
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of 5, all of which had been approved by the Court of the Lord Lyon. The chosen design was that of Duncan Tullock of Birsay, which polled 53% of the 200...
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Scottish heraldry (redirect from Heraldry of Scotland)
Kingdom and is vested in the Lord Lyon King of Arms. The earliest reference to the Lyon, as such, dates to the reign of Robert the Bruce in 1318, although...
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Website of the Chief Herald of Arms of Malta Media related to King of Arms at Wikimedia Commons The Court of the Lord Lyon The College of Arms The Canadian...
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Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun (redirect from Lady Saltoun of Abernethy)
Arms of Clan Fraser since 1 May 1984, by decree of the Court of the Lord Lyon. She is also the head of the Scottish lowland family the Frasers of Philorth...
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pursuivants of arms that are recognized by the Court of the Lord Lyon King of Arms. These are appointed by clan chiefs to look after matters of clan heraldry...
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Council of Scottish Chiefs. He is also recognized Chief of the Name and Arms of MacLeod, in Scotland and the United Kingdom, by the Court of the Lord Lyon. On...
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Adam Bruce (category Presidents of the Oxford Union)
an officer of Arms at the Court of the Lord Lyon. Bruce was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the youngest son of Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin, and...
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