Assertion: nobility's right | /r/CapableOf | sit in the house of lords
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text: A title (except in the case of Baronets or Knights) conferred the right on the recipient to sit in the House of Lords, and to pass on the title to his nearest male heir.
text: A title traditionally carried with it the right of the holder to sit in the House of Lords, but that privilege was revoked (for all but 92 members) in 1999 by the British Labour government.
text: The Peerage Act 1963 granted all Scottish Peers the right to sit in the House of Lords, but this automatic right was revoked, as for all hereditary peerages (except those of the incumbent Earl Marshal and Lord Great Chamberlain), when the House of Lords Act 1999 received royal assent.
text: peer of the realm noun someone from a high social class in the UK, who has the right to sit in the House of Lords