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Definition of By right of office
1. Adverb. By virtue of position. "The president sat on the committee ex officio"
Lexicographical Neighbors of By Right Of Office
Literary usage of By right of office
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1891)
"The former are, by right of office, 1 Lords of HM Privy Council,' and the latter
are by legal right * lord mayors of London and York. ..."
2. The Revised Statutes of the State of New-York: Passed During the Years One by New York (State), Benjamin Franklin Butler, John Duer, John Canfield Spencer (1829)
"AH the officers mentioned in the preceding section, except the commission- speaker
of the assembly, by right of office, are, and shall continue to'™od.f*a ..."
3. Select Constitutional Documents Illustrating South African History, 1795-1910 by George von Welfling Eybers (1918)
"... should in no case whatever belong to the Person or any of tne Persons employed
in such Offices, by right of Office and without account; ..."
4. A History of Austro-Hungary from the Earliest Time to the Year 1889 by Louis Leger, A. B. Hill (1889)
"members by right of office, and members chosen for six years by the electoral
bodies. Archbishops, bishops, and rectors of universities are members by right ..."
5. The Church Cyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Church Doctrine, History by Angelo Ames Benton (1883)
"I» truth, every parish being an integral part of the Diocese, has an inalienable
right to representation, and every clergyman has a seat by right of office. ..."
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