 | New York (State). Supreme Court, Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1863 - Liczba stron: 720
...Rep. 522, 523.) Franchise and liberty, says Blackstone, are synonymous terms, and their definition is a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject. (2 Bl. Com. 37.) This royal prerogative in England, is, by our form of government, vested in the legislature,... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, William Johnson - 1867 - Liczba stron: 510
...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... | |
 | Louis Houck - 1868 - Liczba stron: 268
...ER 245. words " franchise " and " liberty " are synonymous terms. Finch defines a franchise to be " a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject." 1 The kinds of franchises are innumerable. Thus the principality of Wales, in Great Britain, is a franchise... | |
 | 1902 - Liczba stron: 458
...page 37, section VII, " 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 the subject. Being, therefore, derived from the crown, they must arise from the king's grant, or, in... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1872 - Liczba stron: 776
...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,...in some cases may be held by prescription, which, as has been frequently said, presupposes a grant. (24) The kinds of them are various, and almost infinite... | |
 | Stephen Martin Leake - 1874 - Liczba stron: 612
...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 - 1874 - Liczba stron: 510
...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.... | |
 | 1879 - Liczba stron: 540
...Co. 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 - 1875 - Liczba stron: 860
...a 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 - 1875 - Liczba stron: 966
...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... | |
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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. 
