Grace
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
This word is commonly used in contradistinetion to “right.” Thus, in St. 22 Edw, I11., the lord chancellor was instructed to take cognizance of matters of grace, being such subjects of equity jurisdiction as were exclusively matters of equity. Brown. A faculty, license, or dispensation; also general and free pardon by act of parliament.
See AcT or GRACE.