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For some reason my Knighthood seems to have been lost in the post, so I am not in the New Year's Honours this year.

Is there any law that says that I cannot start calling myself Sir Smouldering Stoat, even though I haven't - technically - actually been knighted at all?

You have my permission Sir smoulder, I doth thee so arise Sir Smouldering Stoat.

Good post, like whose authority do we think we need ? A corporation who give us privileges ? Well if they are "only" legally a person incorporated into being, the rest of it must be by adhesion contracts with the state and the people.

All well and good, but lets have some transparency on all these contracts, else if it looks like slavery, feels like slavery, then it is just the evolution of slavery . Who holds legal title on the body politic and all the states children?

Now who are all the people who received knighthoods who made fortunes from running slavery from the UK ?

Oh no, Maggie says it's a good post. I must be losing my touch.

I was referring to myself ! ohh smoulder knighthood revoked!


regards,

Overlord of the Overlords, Mc1215.

Your problem would be that it would be difficult to persuade a court that you did not intend anyone to act on the belief that you were a Baronet. That would be an offence.

If you can’t get a title honourably, you can always buy it directly or indirectly.

The directly bought titles are the cheapest but hold less favour than the indirectly bought titles.

Surely it would be for the Crown to prove beyond reasonable doubt that I did intend that.

The general rule on names is that you can call yourself what you like as long as it is not with an intention to mislead.

Yes. And what would you say in response to the question: "What the hell else would be the point?"

"I fancied a laugh."

"Right, well, I invite the jury to find that people don't pretend to be members of the nobility 'for a laugh'."

I'm not pretending to be a member of the nobility. If I recall correctly it's an offence to impersonate a peer of the realm.

But surely, the Crown would have to produce a person who, they allege, it was my intention to deceive with intent to benefit myself. I can't see that it would be a criminal deception, for example, for my postman to think more highly of me, he is under a duty to deliver my post come what may. If it were the case that I were, say, applying for a loan under an assumed knighthood, I could see what the objection there would be, if it could be shown that the bank were more likely to give the loan to a knight than to a commoner.

What offence it is alleged that I may commit?

You're a bit like that impostor bloke that went wandering around showing off those fake war medals.

No. That was really offensive to those who put their lives on the line.