United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers. Life peers are appointed...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally...

of Commons. Any peer who receives a writ of summons (which is in practice all life Peers bar Royal Peers, and some hereditary peers) may sit in the House...

Lords Temporal include life peers, excepted hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 and remaining law life peers. Notes Welby was an ex...

only 92 hereditary peers, elected by and from all hereditary peers, are permitted to do so, unless they are also life peers. Peers are called to the House...

hereditary peers in the House of Lords by virtue of a life peerage List of hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 List of law life peerages...

member of the peerages in the United Kingdom, who is a hereditary peer or a life peer a member of the Peerage of France (from French noble style "pair"...

In sociology, a peer group is both a social group and a primary group of people who have similar interests (homophily), age, background, or social status...

Act excluded all hereditary peers who were not also life peers except for two holders of royal offices plus ninety other peers, to be chosen by the House...

either life peers or hereditary peers, although the hereditary right to sit in the House of Lords was abolished for all but ninety-two peers during the...