 | Henry Taylor Terry - Common law - 1906 - 942 pages
...rights of persons generally, granted to an individual by the government. It has been defined as " a royal privilege, or branch of the King's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject," 9 or in the United States as " the power of the government in the hands of an individual." A franchise... | |
 | Thomas Johnson Michie - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 868 pages
...and regulations as the government may impose in the public interest.'" A franchise is defined to be a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject. Peel Splint Coal Co. v. State, 36 W. Va. 802, 15 SE 1000, 1003. A franchise is a special right or privilege... | |
 | Richard Selden Harvey - Corporation law - 1906 - 602 pages
...franchises. *. * * All the elementary writers in adopting Finch's definition of a franchise join that it is a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject." To citizens of a republic the idea of sovereignty is absolutely and entirely included in the powers... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale, Bruce Wyman - Interstate commerce - 1906 - 1402 pages
...purposes. Mr. Justice Bradley said : "What is a franchise ?• Under English law Blackstone defines it as a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject. » 127 US 113, 32 L. Ed. 150 (1888). [18] Generalized and divested of the special form which it assumes... | |
 | Gustav Schirrmeister - Law - 1906 - 924 pages
...Franchises. Nach Blackstone (Commentaries, Bd. 2, S. 37) ist unter „franchise*'"") zu verstehen „a ro\al privilege or branch of the king's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject^ (ein in den Händen eines Untertanen befindliches königliches Privileg oder Stück der Prärogative... | |
 | Upendra Nath Mitra - 1907 - 204 pages
...right to set up a private ferry in a river, see note (1), p. 49, and^ note (7), p. 51. A franchise is a royal privilege or branch of the King's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject. (Blackstone), 3 Austin, Lecture XV and Table VIII. 4 Gale, p. 9 ; Duke of Hamilton v. Uraham, LR 2,... | |
 | Political science - 1907 - 808 pages
...English common law and were classified as incorporeal hereditaments. A franchise was considered to be "a branch of the king's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject." The word "franchise" in its origin means "liberty," but in its common use it refers not to liberty... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 606 pages
.../. 17. line 25. the liberties. [Blackstone, in his Commentaries, ii. 37, defines a "liberty" as a " Royal privilege or branch of the King's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject." The term "liberties" is here applied to the estate over which the privilege can be exercised. — ED.]... | |
 | Leslie Jay Tompkins - Corporation law - 1908 - 1188 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 610 pages
.../. 17. line 25. the liberties. [Blackstone, in his Commentaries, ii. 37, defines a "liberty" as a " Royal privilege or branch of the King's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject." The term "liberties" is here applied to the estate over which the privilege can be exercised. — ED.]... | |
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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... 
