Dukedoms of the British Isles by reign Churchill, 1st Earl of Marlborough, the excellent English general of Queen Anne's reign, won many a victory over the French King Louis XIV. He was rewarded with a dukedom, which by a special Act of Parliament passed to his daughters and their descendants when he died without surviving male issue. Created for politician John Manners, 9th Earl of Rutland. He was noted for being one of the first people in England to obtain a divorce, done by special act of Parliament. Like the Dukedom of Cornwall in England, Rothesay is automatically held by the eldest son of the Scottish monarch;
An Act to amend the Copyright Act (38th Canadian Parliament, 1st Session) An Act to amend the Copyright Act (38th Canadian Parliament, 1st Session) An Act to amend the Copyright Act (Bill C-60) was a proposed law to amend the "Copyright Act" initiated by the Government of Canada in the First Session of the Thirty-Eighth Parliament. Introduced by the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Minister responsible for Status of Women Liza Frulla and then Minister of Industry David Emerson as "An Act to Amend the Copyright Act", it received its First Reading in the House of Commons of Canada on June 20, 2005. On November 29, 2005, the opposition to the government