ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
: X.— I There is 110 "right" at all, wo understand; Tlie title is. accorded ,in courtesy and as. a general designation; . .trat usage has settled the proprieties of the matter. It is open to 'any'body to use the title it he chooses, whoevor' and whatever hejriay be. The,,case is quite different from, say, the cas6 of "Doctor." Strictly, only a Doctor of Laws, or of Medicine, or of Philosophy, or of "Literature, or of any other branch of' learning in which Doetoratcs are granted under the powers of a statute or charter, is entitled to call himself "Doctor." We do not know of any statutory or Koyal sanction to govlern the use. of the title as to .which you inquire. . V. .
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 745, 18 February 1910, Page 6
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124ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 745, 18 February 1910, Page 6
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