Letters patent
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 Letters patent issued by Queen Victoria in 1900, creating the office of Governor-General of Australia as part of the process of Federation |
Letters patent (no singular form exists) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch or president, generally granting an office, right, monopoly, title, or status to a person or corporation. They are so named from the Latin verb pateo, to lie open, exposed, accessible. They are called thus from their Latin name litterae patentes long used by mediaeval and later scribes when such documents were written in Latin, expressed in the plural, in the ancient sense of a collection of letters of the alphabet arranged to be read rather than in the modern sense of the word as an "epistle" or item of correspondence; thus no singular form exists.
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- Related: Commissioning scroll, Letter of marque, Letters close, Lettre de cachet, Patent of Toleration, Royal Charter, Statute of Monopolies 1623, Land patent, Patent
| Research Guide on Letters Patent Research Guide on Letters Patent www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/.../RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=76 - Web |
| Letters patent of George VI (1947) constituting th... Letters patent of George VI (1947) constituting the office of Governor General of Canada www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/LettersPatent.html - Web |
| Letters patent of Elizabeth II (1984) constituting... Letters patent of Elizabeth II (1984) constituting the office of Governor-General of Australia www.statusquo.org/aru_html/html/GovGen.html - Web |
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