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Regal Fish

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Whales and sturgeons. 2 Steph. Comm. 19, note 448. REGALE (Law Lat.)

In old French law. A payment made to the seigneur of a fief, on the election of every bishop or other ecclesiastical feudatory, corresponding with the relief paid by a lay feudatory. Steph. Lect. 235.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Whales and sturgeons, se called in English law, as belonging to the king by prerogative when cast on shore or caught near the coast. 1 Bl. Comm. 290.