life peer Although the Crown may have power by its prerogative to create a peer for life, yet such grant does not confer a right to sit and vote in the House of Lords (Wensleydale Case (1856) 5 H.L.C. 958). By the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876, there were created Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, with the dignity of Baron and the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords for life.