| 单词 | quarter seal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquarter seal quarter seal n. Scottish now chiefly historical one of the seals of the Chancery of Scotland, having the shape and impression of a fourth part (the top half of the obverse and reverse) of the Great Seal. ΚΠ 1498 in G. Neilson & H. Paton Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1918) II. 185 The sade Schir Wilyeam producit the sade recognicione of the quarter sele under the quhilt walx. 1578 Kirkcudbright B. Rec. I. 85 With ane precept of sesing vnder the quarter sele. 1632 Stewartry Court Bk. Monteith 15 May Tua brevis of tutorie extract furth of our soverane lordis chancellarie vnder his hienes quarter seall. 1706 Act 6 Anne c. 11 Art. xxiv The privy seal..quarter seal and seals of Courts now used in Scotland. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 451 Royal grants proceeding on signatures, and passing the Privy Seal, Quarter Seal or Great Seal, according as they convey rights of greater or less consequence. 1922 Eng. Hist. Rev. 37 271 The quarter-seal of the Scottish Chancery..is not a quarter-seal at all, but a seal in the shape of a semicircle..modelled on the obverse and reverse of the great seal. 1931 Encycl. Law Scotl. XII. 395 The Quarter Seal is still used for gifts by the Crown as ultimus haeres. 1998 D. M. Walker Legal Hist. Scotl. V. vi. 152 The Quarter Seal was..continued by the Treaty of Union. It was a half-moon in shape and may represent a broken seal. < as lemmas |
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