 | William Galbraith Miller - Jurisprudence - 1903 - 504 pages
...hereditaments. — (ii. 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." Examples given are — " To hold a court leet : to have a manor or lordship, or at least to have a... | |
 | Frederick Newton Judson - Taxation - 1903 - 906 pages
...United States franchise. " What is a franchise? Under the English law Blackstone defines it as " a royal privilege, or branch of the King's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject." 2 Bl. Com. 37. Generalized, and divested of the special form which it assumes under a monarchical government... | |
 | Herbert Thorndike Tiffany - Real property - 1903 - 894 pages
...as to the use and profits of another's land." Franchises. A franchise is in England- defined as "a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject";22 and in this country as "a special privilege conferred by the government upon an individual... | |
 | Herbert Thorndike Tiffany - Real property - 1903 - 1644 pages
...the use and profits of another's land." — — Franchises. A franchise is in England defined as "a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject";22 and in this country as "a special privilege conferred by the government upon an individual... | |
 | Frederick Stroud - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1903 - 820 pages
...Franchise ' and ' LIBERTY ' are used as synonymous terms ; and their definition is, a Royal Privilege, or a branch of the King's Prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject" (2 Bl. Com. 37). Accordingly, a Patent is a " Franchise " within s. 56, Co. Co. Act, 1888 (R. v. Halifax... | |
 | William Wheeler Thornton - Gas industry - 1904 - 1050 pages
...granting of a franchise is the act of a sovereign power. An old definition of it is 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 grant." 20 Franchises has... | |
 | Engineering - 1905 - 500 pages
...question, What is a franchise? Blackstone defines it, in terms rather vague for our purpose, as "A royal privilege or branch of the King's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject." The United States Supreme Court has handed down this definition: "A franchise is a right, privilege... | |
 | John Chipman Gray - Personal property - 1905 - 734 pages
...view of a manor it is included in the list uf Franchises, — the definition of a franchise being "a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of n subject." 2 Blnckst. Com. 37. Manor has also l>een derived a mamndo, as being the seat of the feudal... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 2096 pages
...relation to franchises : " 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 ;" and adds, " that they may be vested in either natural persons or bodies politic; in one man or in... | |
 | John Frederic Clerk, William Harry Barber Lindsell - Torts - 1906 - 990 pages
...gene- Disturbance of Markets and rally 666 Fairs 667 Disturbance of Ferrics 670 A FRANCHISE is " a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject. ... It is ... a franchise for a number of persons to be incorporated and subsist as a body politic.... | |
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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... 
