 | William Blackstone - Law - 1872 - 776 pages
...seventh species. Franchise and liberty are iised as synonymous terms ; and their definition is (v) a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative,...as has been frequently said, presupposes a grant. (24) The kinds of them are various, and almost infinite : I will here briefly touch upon some of the... | |
 | Stephen Martin Leake - Real property - 1874 - 612 pages
...view of a manor it is ineluded 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 Blackst. Com. 37. Manor has also been derived a manendo, as being the sea' of the feudal lord. Co.... | |
 | Archibald Brown - Law - 1874 - 510 pages
...the right of exercising a jurisdiction of one's own ; and in this last signification it is a r»yal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject; e ;/.. to be a county palatine, to have right to hold a Court ieet, to have waifs, wrecks, estrays.... | |
 | Law - 1879 - 540 pages
...v. People, 37 111. 547, adopted the definition of a franchise as given by Blackstone, that "it is 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 gVant," and added that •'... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1875 - 860 pages
...seventh species. Franchise and liberty are used ан synonymous terms; and their definition is(u) a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative,...arise from the king's grant; or in some cases may be hold by prescription, which, as has been frequently s&.id, presupposes a grant. The kinds of them are... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 966 pages
...prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject. VII. Franchises. „ . . Jf / , . , , , , , , • * a. Being therefore derived from the crown, they must arise from the king's grant (x) ; or, in some cases (y), may be held by *prescription, which, as has been frequently said, presupposes... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1876 - 782 pages
...seventh species. Franchise and liberty are used as synonymous terms ; and their definition is (v) a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative,...as has been frequently said, presupposes a grant. (24) The kinds of them are various, and almost infinite: I will here briefly touch upon some of the... | |
 | Cameron Churchill, Sir Alexander Carmichael Bruce - Sheriffs - 1879 - 502 pages
...his heirs or assigns, or some of them " (i). Being, therefore, derived from the crown, they must How arise from the king's grant, or in some cases may be held denve<1 by prescription, which presupposes a grant. Franchises are of different kinds ; a county palatine... | |
 | William Blackstone, Alexander Leith, James Frederick Smith - Law - 1880 - 650 pages
...incorporeal heredita- Franchises. ment. Their definition is a royal privilege, or branch of the Sovereign's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject....therefore derived from the Crown, they must arise from the grant of the Sovereign. They are of various kinds. It is a franchise for a number of persons to be... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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... 
