How To Use letters patent In A Sentence
- Officially, Assent is granted by the Sovereign or by Lords Commissioners authorised to act by letters patent.
- First, there are those which are not letters at all, -- as letters patent, letters dimissory, letters inclosing bills, letters of administration, The Biglow Papers
- The title, in the letters patent creating the peerage, was gazetted as Earl of Scarbrough and not Scarborough.
- I shall never consent to the revocation of it, nor be persuaded to restore yourself to you again; for I shall esteem my properly in you more than the brevets or letters patents of Kjngs, or the donation of Constantine; and you shall be but a usu-fructuary of yourself. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
- Another was annexed by letters patent of 1713 to the provostship of Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
- I applied for letters patent for my system of communicating intelligence at a distance by electricity, differing in all respects from Messrs. Wheatstone and Cooke's system, invented five years before theirs, and having nothing in common in the whole system but the use of _electricity_ on _metallic conductors_, for which use no one could obtain an exclusive privilege, since this much had been used for nearly one hundred years. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II
