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REGENT (from Lat. regere, to rule)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 38 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REGENT (from See also:Lat. regere, to See also:rule)  , one who rules or governs, especially one who acts temporarily as an See also:administrator of the See also:realm during the minority or incapacity of the See also:king . This latter See also:function, however, is one unknown to the See also:English See also:common See also:law . " In See also:judgment of law the king, as king, cannot be said to be a See also:minor, for when the royal See also:body politic of the king doth meet with the natural capacity in one See also:person the whole body shall have the quality of the royal politic, which is the greater and more worthy and wherein is no minority . For omne majus continet in se minus " (See also:Coke upon See also:Littleton, 43a) . But for reasons of See also:necessity a regency, however anomalous it may be in strict law, has frequently been constituted both in See also:England and See also:Scotland . The earliest instance in English See also:history is the See also:appointment of the See also:earl of See also:Pembroke with the assent of the loyal barons on the See also:accession of See also:Henry III . Whether or not the See also:sanction of See also:parliament is necessary for the appointment is a question which has been much discussed . See also:Lord Coke recommends that the See also:office should depend on the will of parliament (Inst., vol. iv. p . 58), and in See also:modern times See also:provision for a REGGIO NELL' See also:EMILIA, a See also:city and episcopal see of Emilia, See also:Italy, the See also:capital of the See also:province of Reggio nell' Emilia (till 1859 See also:part of the duchy of See also:Modena), 38 m. by See also:rail N.W. of See also:Bologna . Pop . (1906) 19,681 (See also:town); 64,548 (See also:commune) . The See also:cathedral, originally erected in the 12th See also:century, was reconstructed in the 15th and 16th; the See also:facade shows traces of both periods, the See also:Renaissance See also:work being See also:complete only in the See also:lower portion .

S . Prospero, See also:

close by, has a facade of 1504, in which are incorporated six See also:marble lions belonging to the See also:original Romanesque edifice . The Madonna della Ghiara, built in 1597 in the See also:form of a See also:Greek See also:cross, and restored in 1900, is beautifully proportioned and finely decorated in See also:stucco and with frescoes of the Bolognese school of the See also:early 17th century . There are several See also:good palaces of the early Renaissance, a See also:fine See also:theatre (1857) and a museum containing important palaeo-ethnological collections, See also:ancient and See also:medieval sculptures, and the natural history collection of See also:Spallanzani . Lodovico See also:Ariosto, the poet (1474-1533), was See also:born in Reggio, and his See also:father's See also:house is still preserved . The See also:industries embrace the making of See also:cheese, See also:objects in See also:cement, matches, and brushes, the See also:production of silkworms, and See also:printing; and the town is the centre of a See also:rich agricultural See also:district . It lies on the See also:main See also:line between Bologna and See also:Milan, and is connected by See also:branch lines with See also:Guastalla and Sassuolo (hence a line to Modena) . See also:Regium Lepidi or Regium Lepidum was probably founded by M . See also:Aemilius See also:Lepidus at the See also:time of the construction of the Via Aemilia (187 B.c.) . It See also:lay upon this road, See also:half-way between Mutina and See also:Parma . It was during the See also:Roman See also:period a flourishing See also:municipium, but perhaps never became a See also:colony; and it is associated with no event more interesting than the assassination of M . See also:Brutus, the father of Clesar's friend and foe .

The bishopric See also:

dates perhaps from the 4th century A.D . Under the See also:Lombards the town was the seat of See also:dukes and See also:counts; in the 12th and 13th centuries it formed a flourishing See also:republic, busied in surrounding itself with walls (1229), controlling the Crostolo and constructing navigable canals to the Po, coining See also:money of its own, and establishing prosperous See also:schools . About 1290 it first passed into the hands of Obizzo d'See also:Este, and the authority of the Este See also:family was after many vicissitudes more formally recognized in 1409 . In the contest for See also:liberty which began in 1796 and closed with See also:annexation to See also:Piedmont in 1859, Reggio took vigorous part .

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