Editing Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (section)

===Qualifications of candidates for appointment===
To be appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary under the 1876 Act, a person was required to have been a practising [[barrister]] for a period of fifteen years or to have held a high judicial office—as [[Lord Chancellor]] (before 2005) or judge of the [[Court of Appeal of England and Wales|Court of Appeal]], [[High Court of Justice of England and Wales|High Court]] or [[Court of Session]]—for a period of two years. Lords of Appeal in Ordinary were required to retire from judicial office at 70 or 75 years of age, though as [[baron]]s they continued to serve as members of the House of Lords in its legislative capacity for life.