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† half-seal Obs.
The impression of the reverse side or ‘foot’ of the Great Seal, with which certain documents used to be sealed. (Cf. half-bull, under half- II n.) Abolished in 1833.
1509–10Act 1 Hen. VIII, c. 16. §4 Lettres patentes..under the great seale or halfe seale of Englond. 1530in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 91 A wrytyng..under the halff seale. 1566Act 8 Eliz. c. 5 Nomynated and appointed by her Maiestie, her heyres or successours, by Commyssion under the Half Seale as it hath ben heretofore used in such Cases. 1641Termes de la Ley 179 Halfe seale is a seale used in Chauncery for the sealing of Commissions unto Delegates upon an appeale in a cause civill or marine. 1832Act 2 & 3 Will. IV, c. 92 §4 Nothing herein..shall ..affect..the Right of His Majesty to grant any such Commission under the Great Seal or under the Half Seal as aforesaid, to hear..any Appeal..which may before the said First Day of February [1833] be pending. |