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Corporation or body politic

created for many temporal purposes, and eleemosynary, to perpetuate founders' charities. It is by virtue of the sovereign's prerogative exercised by a charter, or of an Act of Parliament, or of prescription, that the artificial personage called

Declaration of war

with the enemy except by the king's license. As an act of State done by virtue of the prerogative it carries with it all the force of law, Esposito v. Bowden, (1857) 7 E&B 781

Ecclesiastical Courts

Christianitatis, Lat.] are the Archdeacon's Court, the Consistory Courts, the Court of Arches, the Courts of Peculiars, the Prerogative Courts of the two archbishops, the Faculty Court, and the Privy Council, which is the Appeal Court.

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Escheat

crime personal to the offender, of which the Crown is entitled to take advantage by virtue of its prerogative; while an escheat results from tenure only, and arises from an obstruction in the course of descent; it

Esnecy

Esnecy [fr. 'snesia, Lat.], a private prerogative allowed to the eldest coparcener, where an estate descended to daughters for want of an heir male, to

Fodder

Fodder, (1) food for horses or cattle; (2) among the Feudists a prerogative of the prince to be provided with corn, etc., for his horses, by his subjects in his wars.

Folc-land

liberated when converted by charter into bocland. See Allen's Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Royal Prerogative in England, 143-149.

Franchise

Franchise, an incorporeal hereditament synony-mous with liberty. A royal privilege or branch of the Crown's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject. It arises either from royal grant, or from prescription, which pre-supposes

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum (that you have the body to answer). This, the most celebrated prerogative writ in the English law, is a remedy for a person deprived of his liberty. It is addressed

Wreck

by its owner it was not wreck, i.e., property which the Crown could claim as part of its prerogative, Hals. L.E., loc. cit. Secs. 511-528 of the (English) M.S. Act, 1894, deal generally with the custody of

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Corporation or body politic

created for many temporal purposes, and eleemosynary, to perpetuate founders' charities. It is by virtue of the sovereign's prerogative exercised by a charter, or of an Act of Parliament, or of prescription, that the artificial personage called

Declaration of war

with the enemy except by the king's license. As an act of State done by virtue of the prerogative it carries with it all the force of law, Esposito v. Bowden, (1857) 7 E&B 781

Ecclesiastical Courts

Christianitatis, Lat.] are the Archdeacon's Court, the Consistory Courts, the Court of Arches, the Courts of Peculiars, the Prerogative Courts of the two archbishops, the Faculty Court, and the Privy Council, which is the Appeal Court.

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Escheat

crime personal to the offender, of which the Crown is entitled to take advantage by virtue of its prerogative; while an escheat results from tenure only, and arises from an obstruction in the course of descent; it

Esnecy

Esnecy [fr. 'snesia, Lat.], a private prerogative allowed to the eldest coparcener, where an estate descended to daughters for want of an heir male, to

Fodder

Fodder, (1) food for horses or cattle; (2) among the Feudists a prerogative of the prince to be provided with corn, etc., for his horses, by his subjects in his wars.

Folc-land

liberated when converted by charter into bocland. See Allen's Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Royal Prerogative in England, 143-149.

Franchise

Franchise, an incorporeal hereditament synony-mous with liberty. A royal privilege or branch of the Crown's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject. It arises either from royal grant, or from prescription, which pre-supposes

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum (that you have the body to answer). This, the most celebrated prerogative writ in the English law, is a remedy for a person deprived of his liberty. It is addressed

Wreck

by its owner it was not wreck, i.e., property which the Crown could claim as part of its prerogative, Hals. L.E., loc. cit. Secs. 511-528 of the (English) M.S. Act, 1894, deal generally with the custody of

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