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Gracious

Abounding in grace or mercy manifesting love or bestowing mercy characterized by grace beneficent merciful disposed to show kindness or favor condescending as his most gracious majesty...

Graciously

In a gracious manner courteously benignantly...

Benign

Of a kind or gentle disposition gracious generous favorable benignant...

Benignity

The quality of being benign goodness kindness graciousness...

An adjective suffix meaning full of abounding in having possessing the qualities of like as in gracious abounding in grace arduous full of ardor bulbous having bulbs bulblike riotous poisonous piteous joyous etc...

Civil list

Civil list, an annual sum granted by Parliament at the commencement of each reign, for the expenses of the royal household and establishment, as distinguished from the general exigencies of the state; it is the provision made for the Crown out of the taxes, in lieu of its proper patrimony, and in consideration of the assignment of that patrimony to the public use. This arrangement has prevailed from the time of the Revolution downwards, though the amount fixed for the civil list has been subject in different reigns to considerable variation. At the commencement of her reign a civil list was settled by the (English) Civil List Act, 1837 (1 Vict. c. 2), upon her late Majesty Queen Victoria for life, to the amount of 3,85,000l. was assigned for her Majesty's privy purse; in return for which grant it was provided that the hereditary revenues of the Crown (with the exception of the hereditary duties of excise on beer, ale, and cider, which were to be discontinued during the reign, and as to...

Pardon

Pardon, forgiveness of a crime; remission of punis-hment.The pardoning of criminals is the peculiar preroga-tive of the sovereign. See 4 Steph. Com., 7th Edn.The sovereign may pardon all offences merely against the Crown and the public, excepting: (1) That to preserve the liberty of the subject, the committing any man to prison out of the realm is, by the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2, c. 2), made a pr'munire (see that title), unpardonable even by the Crown; and (2) that the sovereign cannot pardon where private justice is principally concerned in the prosecution of offenders--'non potest rex gratiam facere cum injuria et damno aliorum.'Neither at Common Law could the sovereign pardon an offence against a penal statute after information brought; for thereby the informer had acquired private property in his part of the penalty. But the Remission of Penalties Act, 1859, enables the Crown to remit penalties for offences, although payable to parties other than the Crown; and a special power...

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