This transition did little to relieve the islands of internecine strife although by the early 14th century the MacDonald Lords of the Isles, based on Islay, were in theory these chiefs ' feudal superiors and managed to exert some control.

The British-Irish Council is the expression of a relationship that at the origin of the Anglo-Irish process in 1981 was sometimes given the name Iona, islands of the North Atlantic, and sometimes Council of the Isles, with its evocation of the Lords of the Isles of the 14th and 15th centuries who spanned the North Channel.

An amendment to the bill by Lord Teverson that would have ensured that " all parts of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly must be included in constituencies that are wholly in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly " was defeated by 250 to 221 votes in the House of Lords with 95 % of the aforementioned parties rejecting it.

The family was at first chiefly employed by the Lords of the Isles as poets, lawyers, and physicians.

He, along with his brothers, was also descended from Kings / Lords of Galloway, who were themselves a branch of the same Kings of Mann and the Isles which produced Somerled, progenitor of Clan Donald, Clan Dougall, and Clan Ruari.

The Lords of the Isles, of the MacDonald family, originally functioned as vassals of the Scottish — or Norwegian — kings who ruled the Western Isles.

Somerled's descendants eventually became known as the Lords of the Isles, with Dubgall giving rise to Clan MacDougall, and Raghnall to Clan Donald and Clan Macruari.

The MacDonnells of Antrim were a sept of the powerful Clan Donald of the royal Clann Somhairle, ( see Lords of the Isles ), that the English crown had attempted to cultivate since the early 14th century in its efforts to influence the course of politics in Scotland.

It fell under the control of the Norse and the Lords of the Isles before becoming incorporated into modern Scotland and saw a variety of conflicts during the medieval period.

At their height they were the greatest landowners and most powerful Lords in Britain and its Isles ( excluding Ireland ) following the Kings of England and Scotland.

The only island still in the possession of direct descendants of the Lords of the Isles is tiny Cara off Kintyre, which is owned by the MacDonalds of Largie, a small remnant of a once vast family inheritance.

Somerled, Gilledomman's grandson, seized the Isles from the King of Man in 1156 and founded a dynasty that in time became the Lords of the Isles.

In their maritime domain the Lords of the Isles used galleys for both warfare and transport.

Successive Lords of the Isles fiercely asserted their independence, culminating in 1462 with John MacDonald II of the Isles making a treaty with Edward IV of England to conquer Scotland with him and the Earl of Douglas.

Tiny Cara off Kintyre, which is owned by the MacDonalds of Largie, is reputedly the only island still in the possession of direct descendants of the Lords of the Isles.

From the 12th century onwards Norse power in the Western Isles weakened, and by 1266 they reverted to Scots ' control under the tutelage of the Lords of the Isles.

Nearby lie the ruined remains of the 14th-century Dunyvaig Castle, once a fortress of the MacDonald Lords of the Isles.

In Connelly v DPP ( AC 1254 ), the Law Lords ruled that a defendant could not be tried for any offence arising out of substantially the same set of facts relied upon in a previous charge of which he had been acquitted, unless there are " special circumstances " proven by the prosecution.

In Orson Scott Card's series of fantasy novels The Tales of Alvin Maker, set in an alternate early 19th century America, England continues to be ruled by the Cromwells as Lords Protector, while the Stuarts rule the " Crown Colonies " ( roughly equivalent to the states from Virginia to Georgia ) from " Camelot " ( Charleston ).

The earls of Kildare ruled as Lords Deputy from 1470 ( with more or less success ) by a series of alliances with the Gaels.

The judge ruled in Urban's favour, but an appeal in the House of Lords in 1914 reversed the decision.

Between 1627 and 1775, two powerful families had partitioned the country: the Nguyễn Lords ruled the South and the Trịnh Lords ruled the North.

Xiuhtecuhtli was also one of the nine Lords of the Night and ruled the first hour of the night, named Cipactli (" Alligator ").

In October 2008, the House of Lords ruled in favour of the Government, overturning the original High Court ruling.

This territory, ruled by the Lords of Aa in Anderlecht, was integrated into the Landgraviate of Brabant by the counts of Leuven around 1085.

The increased minimum term was overturned in 1997 by the House of Lords, who ruled that it was " unlawful " for the Home Secretary to decide on minimum sentences for young offenders.

Similarly, after the resignation of Neville Chamberlain in 1940 there were two likely successors, Churchill and Halifax, but the latter ruled himself out for the premiership on the grounds that his membership of the House of Lords disqualified him.

The emblem consists of gules two chevrons embowed argent ; it is the arms of the Lords of Zwingenstein who ruled the village from their Castle until 1531.

The most prominent of these were the Archbishopric of Mainz and the territory ruled by the Lords of Eppstein, who were later succeeded by the Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt.

In the Middle Ages, South Shropshire was part of the Welsh Marches, a lawless area ruled by tyrannical feudal lords, who as Marcher Lords had de facto independence from the King of England.

He ruled from the city of Huế for the rest of his life and established the dominion of the Nguyễn Lords in the southern part of the country.

While the Nguyễn Lords, like the Trịnh, paid tribute to the Lê Emperor, the reality was they ruled, not the king.

In the 10th century, the region got its name from the town of Beaujeu, Rhône and was ruled by the Lords of Beaujeu till the 15th century when it was ceded to the Duchy of Burgundy.

The Nguyễn Lords ruled the southern provinces of Vietnam from the city of Huế ( in what was later called Annam by the French, though Annam historically refers to the northern part of modern Vietnam ).

The Law Lords ruled in 2003 that this law does not prohibit peaceful printed advocacy of anti-monarchy sentiments.

In 1812 the House of Lords ruled in favour of Sir James Innes-Ker, 6th Baronet, of Innes ( see Innes baronets ), rejecting claims by the heir female of the second earl and heir male whatsoever of the first earl.

The House of Lords eventually ruled that the office belonged to the heir male, Robert Bertie, 14th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, who later became Earl of Lindsey.

The Time Lords are further protected by phasing the entire region around Gallifrey into a temporal domain known as Inner Time, effectively separating the homeworld from interaction with the rest of the Universe.

He joined the Cabinet as Paymaster-General and Employment Minister ( 1985 – 87 ) ( his Secretary of State, Lord Young, was in the Lords ), and served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister at the DTI ( 1987 – 88 ), with responsibility for the Inner Cities.

The Lords of Council and Session sit in the Inner House, typically in threes.

Unlike in the High Court of Justiciary, there is a right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ( and previously instead to the House of Lords or to the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords ) of cases from the Inner House.

Shaw proclaimed himself Black King, remade the Council of the Chosen into his Inner Circle and gathered Emma Frost, Harry Leland and the non-mutant cyborg Donald Pierce as the Lords Cardinal of Hellfire Club.

Alongside Shaw, she kills Buckman and the Council of the Chosen, then – along with Shaw – takes control of the Hellfire Club, setting themselves up as Lords Cardinal of the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club.

In 1699, a family dispute broke out between these heirs, when Susanna Brereton's daughter Mary, who had married John Levett Esq., a barrister of the Inner Temple, London, petitioned the House of Lords in London on behalf of Edward Ward, 11th Baron Dudley and 3rd Baron Ward, who was an infant when his father died, and whose guardianship had been held by Edward, Earl of Meath, and his wife, who was the aunt of the infant lord.