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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Besides the popular use of this word in the sense of emblems of royalty, indicia of sovereignty, it is used in old law for the king's royal rights, his prerogative: considered to comprise power of judicature; power of life and death; power of war and peace; masterless goods; assessments; minting of money.