Queen Victoria
historical figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages
the Queen · her Majesty · our own Queen Victoria · the Queen's most Excellent Majesty · the young Queen · your Majesty
in the texts
The Law of Torts
The reigning Queen (Victoria) referenced both generically as sovereign of 'her Majesty's subjects' and by name in a historical illustration.
Public or common nuisances affect the Queen’s subjects at large, or some considerable portion of them, such as the inhabitants of a town;
to have interfered with the further use of sea coal in London, because it had been ascertained to their satisfaction, or predicted to their satisfaction, that by the reign of Queen Victoria both white and red roses would have ceased to bloom in the Temple Gardens.
“A common nuisance is an unlawful act or omission to discharge a legal duty, which act or omission endangers the lives, safety, health, property, or comfort of the public, or by which the public are obstructed in the exercise or enjoyment of any right common to all her Majesty’s subjects”.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Referred to as 'the young Queen' in the anecdote about Lord Melbourne's introduction of Lord Ashley.
A story is told, which may possibly be true, that Lord Melbourne introduced Lord Ashley—as he then was—to the young Queen as “the greatest Jacobin in your Majesty’s dominions.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Reigning monarch cited as representative of Teutonic royal lineage.
Our own Queen Victoria has in her veins the blood of Cerdic of Wessex, the fierce Teutonic chief out of whose dignity English kingship grew;
The Genius of the Common Law
British monarch whose published correspondence is cited as revealing her influential and sound counsel.
I think it may be truly said that her counsels prevailed oftener than not, and not because she was the Queen, but because they were right and carried conviction.