Court of Claims
The Court of Claims is a special court in the United Kingdom created after the assumption of office of a new monarch to review, reject or uphold the hereditary claims of persons to honorary service at the coronation of British monarchs . The first documented court day was held in 1377. Since the time of Henry VII, this court has been appointed by the regent, run as a royal commission and certified by the Great Seal of England . The Earl Marshal holds the hereditary chairmanship .
The court has no influence whatsoever on the awarding of royal awards in the form of honorary offices, and the regent can refer individual disputed points to other courts.
procedure
The petitioners are invited to submit their petitions through a public notice . The submitters do not have to appear at the court dates themselves, but can be represented by lawyers. If a family's claim was positively certified in one of the former courts, these claims were always confirmed. In 1901 and 1902, due to the more than 60-year interim coronation phase, the court had great difficulty defining the hereditary privileges in some petitions. No new confirmations were given at the following coronations.
literature
- Crown Office (Ed.): Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second: minutes of the proceedings of the Court of claims. 1952.
- Gerald Wollaston : Coronation Claims . London 1910.