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Prerogative of mercy

Prerogative of mercy. In early times the operation of the Royal

Prerogative courts. The two archbishops have each of them a prerogative

Prerogative Writs, processes issued upon extra-ordinary occasions on proper cause shown.

Prerogative, a peculiar or exclusive privilege. Especially, all the rights which

prerogative writ see writ

Seigniorage, a royalty or prerogative of the Crown, whereby an allowance of gold and silver,

Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 500. Is a high prerogative writ of English Common Law, Habeas Corpus Act of 1979

[annus, dies et vastum, Lat.], a part of the royal prerogative, whereby the Crown had for a year and a day

after the impeachment has been solemnly heard and determined, the prerogative of pardon may be extended to the person impeached. A

granting of such letters-patent is a branch of the Royal Prerogative, and is subject to no restrictions whatever. The denizen might