 | John Willard - Conveyancing - 1861 - 718 pages
...be a royal privilege, or a branch of the prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject, and may arise from the king's grant, or, in some cases, may be held by prescription which presupposes a grant. Immunities and privileges in which the public have an interest, as contradistinguished... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 730 pages
...opinion of this court in that case reference is made to Blackstone's description of a franchise as "a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of the subject, and, being derived from the crown, must arise from the king's grant," and also to the... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1863 - 812 pages
...in the hands of the subject (e). Being therefore derived from the crown, they must arise from royal grant; or in some cases may be held by prescription,...which, as has been frequently said, presupposes a grant (f). The kinds of them are various and almost infinite ; we will here mention some of the principal,... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - Law reports, digests, etc - 1863 - 720 pages
...522, 523.) Franchise and liberty, says Blackstone, are synonymous terms, and their definition is a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject. (2 Bl. Com. 37.) This royal prerogative in England, is, by our form of government, vested in the legislature,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 522 pages
...therefore, from the grant of the crown, 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, аз co-tenants. Thus a county palatine is... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1867 - 926 pages
...seventh species. ' Franchise and liberty are used as synonymous terms ; and their definition is (u) a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative,...which, as has been frequently said, presupposes a grant.7 The kinds of them are various, and almost infinite : 1 will here briefly touch upon some of... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, William Johnson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 510 pages
...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 writ of quo warranto, is a substitute for that ancient writ, which... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 526 pages
...therefore, from the grant of the crown, 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 eo-tenanta Thus a county palatine is a... | |
 | Louis Houck - Harbors - 1868 - 268 pages
...245. words " franchise " and " liberty " are synonymous terms. Finch defines a franchise to be " a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject." 1 The kinds of franchises are innumerable. Thus the principality of Wales, in Great Britain, is a franchise... | |
 | Law - 1902 - 458 pages
...page 37, section VII, " franchise and liberty are used as synonymous terms, and their definition is a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of the subject. Being, therefore, derived from the crown, they must arise from the king's grant, or, in... | |
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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... 
