 | Charles Burke Elliott - Corporation law - 1898 - 342 pages
...of a "franchise" given by Finch, adopted by Blackstone, and accepted by every authority since, is "a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject." To be a franchise, the right possessed must be such as cannot be exercised without the express permission... | |
 | Charles Fisk Beach - Antitrust law - 1898 - 842 pages
...a 'franchise,' given by Finch, adopted by Blackstono, and accepted by every authority since, is 'a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject.' To a franchise the right possessed must be such as cannot be excused without the express permission... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 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,...The kinds of them are various and almost infinite. To be a county palatine is a franchise, vested in a number of persons. It is likewise a franchise for... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 1210 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... | |
 | Emlin McClain - Constitutional law - 1900 - 1134 pages
...In our judgment, it cannot. What is a franchise ? Under the English law Blackstone defines it as "a powers of government over that subject have been delegated, subject only to such restrictio 2 Bl. Com. 37. Generalized, and divested of the special form which it assumes under a monarchial government... | |
 | John Cassan Wait - Architects - 1900 - 728 pages
...franchise can be held which is not derived from a law of the state. At common law a franchise was made a branch of the king's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject; but this idea of a franchise has been modified to agree with the modern prerogatives of constitutional... | |
 | Arthur Jerome Eddy - Antitrust law - 1901 - 892 pages
...of a franchise given by Finch, adopted by Blackstone, and accepted by every authority since, is 'a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject.' To be a franchise the right possessed must be such as cannot be exercised without the express permission... | |
 | Walter A. Shumaker, George Foster Longsdorf - Law - 1901 - 1016 pages
...particular privilege conferred by grant from government, and vested in individuals. 3 Kent, Comm. 458. A branch of the king's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject Finch, Law, lib. 2, c. 14; 2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 37. In a popular sense, the word seems to be synonymous... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1902 - 540 pages
...seventh species. (69) 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.(7o) 09 Rep. 97. (0 Bee book i. ch. 12. 11 Rep. 4. (u) Finch, 1. 154. (65) i Pingrey on Real... | |
 | Horace La Fayette Wilgus - Corporation law - 1902 - 1252 pages
...Finch 164 (1613): "Franchises and libertv 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 * * * they may be vested in either natural persons or bodies politic; in one man.orin many";... | |
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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... 
