 | William Blackstone - Law - 1890 - 850 pages
...seventh species. Franchise and liberty are used as synonymous terms : and iheir definition is," fa royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject.J Being therefore derived from the crown, they must arise from the king's grant ; or, in some... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - Administrative law - 1890 - 698 pages
...general principle is reserved as follows: TO THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. 515 Customs Laws — Charges. branch of the King's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject." From its nature the privilege would indicate a personal trust. Being granted by a Sovereign it can... | |
 | John C. Devereux - Law - 1891 - 432 pages
...franchises ? — 37. 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 a subject. 15. What is an annuity, and wherein does it differ from a rentcharge ? — 40. An annuity is a thing... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 630 pages
...power arising out of an absolute necessity. But what is their franchise ? A franchise in England is a branch of the King's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject. It is derived from the crown, and must arise from the king's grant, or by prescription, which pre-supposes... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1891 - 758 pages
...power arising out of an absolute necessity. But what is their franchise? A franchise, in England, is a branch of the king's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject, ft is derived from the crown, and must arise from the king's grant, or by prescription, which presupposes... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 558 pages
...are a seventh species. Franchise and liberty are used as synonymous terms; and their definition is a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative,...crown, they must arise from the king's grant; or in sometieses may be held by prescription, which, as has been frequently said, presupposes a grant. The... | |
 | Thomas Terrell - Patent laws and legislation - 1895 - 660 pages
...p. 7, it is said : ' Franchise and liberty are used as synonymous terms, and their definition is, a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative,...a grant. The kinds of them are various and almost (a) LB, 1891, 1 QB 798, 797 ; rmed by 0. A., LE, 1891, 2 QB 263. T. • B infinite." In Chitty's Prerogative... | |
 | Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman - Taxation - 1895 - 456 pages
...however, we must attempt to ascertain what a franchise really is. Blackstone defines a franchise as " a royal privilege or. branch of the King's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject." But his definition is too vague for our purposes. The Supreme Court of the United States has given... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1072 pages
...citizens from exercising them? What is a franchise? Blackstone defines it "as a royal prerogative, or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject": 2 Blackstone's Commentaries, 37. Chief Justice Taney defines them as follows: "Franchises are special... | |
 | William Blackstone (Sir) - Great Britain - 1897 - 838 pages
...privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, existing in the hands of a subject. Franchises usually arise from the king's grant, or in some cases may be held by prescription, 'which presupposes a grant. They are of various kinds, and may be vested in either natural persons or bodies... | |
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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... 
