 | William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - Law - 1840 - 764 pages
...species of incorporeal hereditaments. Franchises. Franchise and liberty are synonymous terms, being a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject. Franchises, which may be vested in either Datural persons or bodies politic, may arise from the king's... | |
 | Henry Kent Staple Causton - Inheritance and succession - 1842 - 346 pages
...Dignities, of which hereafter. 7. Franchises, a term used synonimonsly with liberty, and defined to be a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject 8. Corodies, a right of sustenance, or a certain allotment of provision foi maintenance, charged on... | |
 | James Lord - Conveyancing - 1844 - 306 pages
...Tit. xxvi. c. 3. and precedence of the ancient barony to which he is nominated.* 7. A franchise is a Royal privilege, or branch of the King's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject. f Franchises are of various kinds, and arise from the King's grant or from prescription which pre-supposes... | |
 | George Spence - Civil procedure - 1846 - 708 pages
...["•TÏ21 'i°er^es) are another species of incorporeal "hereditaments: they ' J are defined to be a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject: — to have a manor or lordship, a fair or market, a forest, chace, park, warren or fishery, are instances.... | |
 | Political dictionary - 1846 - 976 pages
...synonymous terms, and their definition is a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative, which is in the hands of a subject. Being therefore derived from the crown, such privileges must arise from the king's grant, though in some cases they may be held by prescription,... | |
 | Political science - 1846 - 982 pages
...privileges must arise from the king's grant, though in some cases they may be held by prescription, which presupposes a grant- The kinds of them are various, and almost infinite, and may subsist in corporations, in one man, or in many, as co-tenants. (2 Blackstone, Com. 37.) A... | |
 | Economics - 1853 - 502 pages
...synonymous terms, and their definition is a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative, which is in the hands of a subject. Being therefore derived from the crown, such privileges must arise from the king's grant, though in some cases they may be held by prescription,... | |
 | George Philip R. Pulman - 1854 - 542 pages
...diocese of Salisbury, 1 Franchise and Liberty are used as synonymous terms, and their definition is, a royal privilege, or branch of the King's prerogative,...in some cases, may be held by prescription, which pre-supposes a grant. The kinds of them are various, and almost infinite. They may be vested in either... | |
 | John Ogilvie - English language - 1855 - 434 pages
...are named rails. FRAM'PAL, a. Unruly ; forward ; evil-conditioned. [Scotch.] FRAN'CHISE, л. [add.] A royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject. It arises either from royal grants or from prescription, which presupposes a grant. FRAN'CHISE, n.... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...employment 86 8. For dignities, which are titles of honour, sec liook I. Ch. XII. 9. Franchises arc a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject 37 10. Corodies arc allotments for one's sustenance; which may be converted into pensions. (See Book... | |
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Franchise and liberty are used as synonymous terms ; and their definition is (u) a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject Being therefore derived from the crown, they must arise from the king's grant... 
