The privilege of peerage is the body of special privileges belonging to members of the British peerage. It is distinct from parliamentary privilege, which...

A Peerage is a form of crown distinction, with Peerages in the United Kingdom comprising both hereditary and lifetime titled appointments of various ranks...

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right to a writ of summons to the House. A peer who disclaims the peerage loses all titles, rights and privileges associated with the peerage; if they are...

The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. From that year, the Peerages of England...

history of the British peerage, a system of nobility found in the United Kingdom, stretches over the last thousand years. The current form of the British...

The Peerage of France (French: Pairie de France) was a hereditary distinction within the French nobility which appeared in 1180 during the Middle Ages...

and found not guilty of murder (by eighteen votes to six), but guilty of manslaughter. He successfully pleaded Privilege of peerage (i.e. the right to escape...

heat". CNN. Retrieved 2006-08-23. Schonfeld, Gordon (2009). "Privilege of Peerage: The Value of Professional Designations". NYSSA. Retrieved 2014-05-26. CAIA...

upon the Committee for Privileges' recommendation. The Committee for Privileges also has a role in terminating abeyant peerages. A co-heir may petition...

convicted of bigamy before the House of Lords in 1901, the last peer to be convicted of an offence in a trial by the Lords before that privilege of peerage was...

The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five Peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great...

and charged with murder. Dacre, exercising the privilege of peerage, demanded a trial before the House of Lords, and initially pleaded not guilty. He was...

was acquitted; Warwick was found guilty of manslaughter but escaped punishment by pleading privilege of peerage. As he neared his eleventh birthday, Gloucester...

members of the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of Ireland to sit in the British House of Lords. Until 1999, all members of the Peerage of England...

The hereditary peers form part of the peerage in the United Kingdom. As of November 2024, there are 801 hereditary peers: 30 dukes (including six royal...

Duke of Rutland is a title in the Peerage of England, named after Rutland, a county in the East Midlands of England. Earldoms named after Rutland have...

The Peerage of Ireland consists of those titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland, or later by monarchs...

members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers. Life peers are appointed by the monarch on the advice of the prime...

This is a list of trials of peers in the House of Lords. Until 1948, peers of the United Kingdom and its predecessor states had the right to trial by their...

opinion of the Lords was that the privilege ought to be abolished; the holders of this view were generally holders of recently-created peerages who chafed...

Kazoku (華族, "Magnificent/Exalted lineage") was the hereditary peerage of the Empire of Japan, which existed between 1869 and 1947. It was formed by merging...

the drafting of the Criminal Justice Act 1948, it was Simon who proposed the eventual insertion of the abolition of the privilege of peerage for criminal...

abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental...

manslaughter and exercised his privilege of peerage to escape punishment, leaving him without the use of that Get Out of Jail Free card which he sorely...

The Peerage of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Moraireachd na h-Alba; Scots: Peerage o Scotland) is one of the five divisions of peerages in the United Kingdom...

increasing since the Life Peerages Act 1958. As of June 2023, there were 801 members of the House of Lords, of whom 25 were senior Church of England bishops, whose...

Opening of Parliament. See also: Privilege of peerage#Robe "No. 39709". The London Gazette. 2 December 1952. p. 6352. Cox, N. (1999). "The Coronets of Members...

a unique privilege granted to his family by Queen Victoria after visiting Blair Atholl in 1844. The elder son of John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, and...

HASTINGES....In the Hastings Peerage claim in 1840-41 the Committee for Privileges of the House of Lords, following the recommendation of Lord Chancellor Cottenham...