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The Great Seal of the Realm or Great Seal of the United Kingdom is a British institution by which the monarch's official documents can be authorised without having to be signed personally. Wax is melted in a metal mould or matrix and impressed into a wax figure that is attached by cord or ribbon to documents that the monarch wishes to make official.
The Great Seal might mean: Great Seal of Canada Great Seal of the Irish Free State Great Seal of the Realm (UK) Great Seal of the United States See also: Seal...
Great Seal of the Irish Free State
REVERSE ( larger version ) The Great Seal of the Irish Free State was the Great Seal which replaced the Great Seal of the Realm used to seal official documents of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Éireann). The Great Seal is currently kept at National Museum of Ireland at Collins...
Proclamation under the Great Seal of the Realm, issued within six months after the passing of this Act... lawful for us by our Royal Proclamation under the Great Seal of the Realm issued within 6 months after... Great Britain and Northern Ireland , rather than "Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain...
England, after throwing the Great Seal of the Realm into the Thames, fled to France in 1688, he did not... the same before the expiry of the time for which it is held. In Roman law, the term is especially applied to the disowning of a member of a family, as the disinheriting of a son, but in more recent...
from Britain, namely its own Great Seal to use. The rest of the Commonwealth still used Britain's Great Seal of the Realm. ( See also Victor Emmanuel III of Italy) In 1936, the 1922 Constitution was... kingship of Great Britain) until 1801, when the Act of Union which merged the Kingdoms of Ireland and...
still is, used by monarchs as the Great Seal of the Realm. Similarly, the bishop of Durham's coat of..., even during the reign of Alfred the Great (849-899). When William the Conqueror became king of... and civil functions, the Bishops used two or more seals: the traditional almond-shaped seal of a...
except through a British minister, and had to use the British state's Great Seal of the Realm on all... Portuguese Republic in 1931); The unprecedented abandonment of the use of the British Great Seal of the Realm and its replacement by the Great Seal of the Irish Free State , which the King awarded to...
, British government, British Crown or even from 1931 the British Great Seal of the Realm which the... considers to be of great "national importance" into law until it has been approved by either: The... implication was challenged by the Ulster Unionists and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern...