 Franchise and liberty are used as synonymous terms; and their definition is (v) a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject.  The book of the Axe - Page 72by George Philip R. Pulman - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Archibald Brown - Law - 1880 - 648 pages
...coupled with the right of exercising a jurisdiction of one's own ; and in this bist signification it is a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject ; eg, to be a county palatine, to have right to hold a Court feet, to have waifs, wrecks, (strays,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 800 pages
...bodies politic. All the elementary writers agree in adopting Finch's definition of a franchise, that it is a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject. An information in the nature of a quo warranto is a substitute for that ancient writ, which has fallen... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - Bronx (New York, N.Y.) - 1886 - 650 pages
...given by the Crown in the Grants of manors, or of lands not manors. " A franchise," says Cruise, l; is a royal privilege or branch of the King's prerogative subsisting in a subject by a grant from the Crown." 5 When so granted they were said to be appendant to the manor,... | |
 | West Virginia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1886 - 820 pages
...powers. Every charter of incorporation is a franchise, which is defined to be "a royal privilege, or a branch of the King's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject." That at the basis of this species of property there is a contract between the subject or individuals,... | |
 | Edward Floyd De Lancey - Dutch - 1886 - 172 pages
...given by the Crown in the Grants of manors, or of lands not manors. " A franchise," says Cruise, <; is a royal privilege or branch of the King's prerogative subsisting in a subject by a grant from the Crown."* When so granted they were said to be appendant to the manor,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 1204 pages
...privilege conferred by grant from government, and vested in Individuals." In England it is defined as "a branch of the king's prerogative subsisting In the hands of a subject." Finch, lib. 2, c. 14; 2 Shars. Bl. Comm. 37. In Banking Co. v. Eisenman, 94 Ky. 88, 21 S. W. 532, In... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 978 pages
...person, without, as a general rule, incurring individual responsibility, is declared by Blackstone to be "a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject": 2 Bla. Com. 37. Such right or franchise is defined by Bouvier to be " a certain privilege conferred... | |
 | John Chipman Gray - Personal property - 1888 - 936 pages
...this view of a manor it is included in the list of Franchises, — the definition of a franchise being "a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject." 2 Rlackst. Com. 37. ifanor has also been derived a mancnito, ns being the seat of the feudal lord.... | |
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