Definition of Armorial Bearings

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Armorial Bearings
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In English law. A device depicted on the (now imaginary) shield of one of the nobility, of which gentry is the lowest degree. The criterion of nobility is the bearing of arms or armorial bearings, received from ancestry.