Letters patent (plural form for singular and plural) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, president...

Letters patent (always in the plural; abbreviated to LsP by the Crown Office), in the United Kingdom, are legal instruments generally issued by the monarch...

regias literas per reg. lit. etc. by royal letters by letters patent; of academic degrees: awarded by letters patent from the King/Queen, rather than by a...

Letters Patent, 1947 (formally, the Letters Patent Constituting the Office of Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada), are letters patent signed...

The expression 'Hong Kong Letters Patent' is most commonly used to refer to the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917, one of the principal constitutional documents...

available for public inspection). It is a shortened version of the term letters patent, which was an open document or instrument issued by a monarch or government...

12 November 2022[update]. It lists those places that have been granted city status by letters patent or royal charter. There are currently 76 such cities in the United Kingdom:...

York: Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-19-920502-7. 59–61. Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1467–77, pg. 190. Sutton and Visser-Fuchs, "A 'Most Benevolent Queen;'"Laynesmith...

the peerage, as with life peers. Peerages may be created by means of letters patent, but the granting of new hereditary peerages has largely dwindled; only...

constitutional instruments were the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1960, the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1982, the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1991 (No. 1), and the Hong Kong Royal...