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Liberty

Liberty, a franchise, being a royal privilege or a branch there of, subsisting in the hands of a subject, as a

Franchise prisons

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Sipessocua

Sipessocua, a franchise, liberty, or hundred.

the nature of a writ of right for the Crown against him who claims or usurps any office, franchise, or liberty to inquire 'by what authority' he supports his claim, in order to determine the right. It

House of Commons

extended; in 1867, when a similar but less extensive re-arrangement of seats took place, and household and lodger franchise was established in boroughs; and in 1884, when household and lodger franchise was established in counties, and a

quo warranto

extraordinary writ requiring a person or corporation to show by what right or authority a public office or franchise is held or exercised 2 : a proceeding in the nature of a writ of quo warranto for

University

& 10 Geo. 5, c. 71), empowered universities to admit women to membership, degrees, and see infra. Parliamentary Franchise.-Oxford and Cambridge had the franchise for two members each from the earliest times; London acquired it by ss.

Woman

a writ of summons to the House of Lords, Rhondda's (Viscountess) Petition, (1922) 2 AC 339. The Parliamentary Franchise was extended to women by the Representation of the People Act, 1918, which also contains provisions regulating the

Ferry

and their goods in boats across a river, and to take toll for such carriage. It is a franchise, and can only be created by a grant from the Crown, prescription which presumes such a grant, or

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