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Kingliness

The state or quality of being kingly

Royalty

The state of being royal the condition or quality of a royal person kingship kingly office sovereignty

Prerogative of mercy

Prerogative of mercy. In early times the operation of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy was far wider than at the present day, as it was not only extended to some persons who in later ages would...

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Testa de nevil

Testa de nevil, an ancient document in two volumes, in the custody of the King's Remembrancer in the Exchequer, more properly called Liber Feodorum. These books contain principally accounts (1) of fees holden either immediately of...

Petition of Right

Petition of Right, 3 Car. 1, c. 1, a parliamentary declaration of the liberties of the people, assented to by Charles I. in the beginning of his reign. In the first Parliament of Charles I., which...

Herald

Herald [fr. here, Sax., an army, and heald, a champion; herault, heraut, Fr.; herald, Ger.; araldo, Ital.; because it was part of his office to charge or challenge unto battle or combat], an officer who registers...

Certiorari

Certiorari (to be more fully informed of), an original writ issuing out of the Crown side of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, addressed, in the king's name, to judges or officers...

Precedence or precedency

Precedence or precedency, the act or state of going before; adjustment of place. The rules of precedence may be reduced to the following list, in which those marked * are entitled to the rank here allotted...

Letters patent

Letters patent, is derived from Latin word 'literae patentes.' The letters patent are so called because 'they are open letters; they are not sealed up, but exposed to view, with the great seal pendant at the...

Quo minus

Quo minus, a writ which lay for him who had a grant of house-bote and hay-bote in another's woods against the grantor making such waste whereby the grantee could the less enjoy his grant, Old N.B....

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Kingliness

The state or quality of being kingly

Royalty

The state of being royal the condition or quality of a royal person kingship kingly office sovereignty

Prerogative of mercy

Prerogative of mercy. In early times the operation of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy was far wider than at the present day, as it was not only extended to some persons who in later ages would...

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Testa de nevil

Testa de nevil, an ancient document in two volumes, in the custody of the King's Remembrancer in the Exchequer, more properly called Liber Feodorum. These books contain principally accounts (1) of fees holden either immediately of...

Petition of Right

Petition of Right, 3 Car. 1, c. 1, a parliamentary declaration of the liberties of the people, assented to by Charles I. in the beginning of his reign. In the first Parliament of Charles I., which...

Herald

Herald [fr. here, Sax., an army, and heald, a champion; herault, heraut, Fr.; herald, Ger.; araldo, Ital.; because it was part of his office to charge or challenge unto battle or combat], an officer who registers...

Certiorari

Certiorari (to be more fully informed of), an original writ issuing out of the Crown side of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, addressed, in the king's name, to judges or officers...

Precedence or precedency

Precedence or precedency, the act or state of going before; adjustment of place. The rules of precedence may be reduced to the following list, in which those marked * are entitled to the rank here allotted...

Letters patent

Letters patent, is derived from Latin word 'literae patentes.' The letters patent are so called because 'they are open letters; they are not sealed up, but exposed to view, with the great seal pendant at the...

Quo minus

Quo minus, a writ which lay for him who had a grant of house-bote and hay-bote in another's woods against the grantor making such waste whereby the grantee could the less enjoy his grant, Old N.B....

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