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LETTERS NOBILITY [1 record]

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Record 1 1994-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Documents
OBS

letters patent: written communications usually signed and sealed from a government or sovereign of a nation conferring upon a designated person a grant (as a right, title, status ...) that could not otherwise be enjoyed in a form readily open for inspection by all seeking confirmation of the grant conferred ....

OBS

always used in the plural.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Documents juridiques
DEF

(...) grandes lettres patentes par lesquelles le roi accordait la noblesse à un roturier.

OBS

Dans les ouvrages consultés, les termes "lettre de noblesse" et "lettre d'anoblissement" sont presque toujours utilisés au pluriel.

Spanish

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