 | Walter A. Shumaker, George Foster Longsdorf - 1901 - 1016 pages
...particular privilege conferred by grant from government, and vested in individuals. 3 Kent, Comm. 458. A branch of the king's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject Finch, Law, lib. 2, c. 14; 2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 37. In a popular sense, the word seems to be synonymous... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1902 - 540 pages
...seventh species. (69) 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.(7o) 09 Rep. 97. (0 Bee book i. ch. 12. 11 Rep. 4. (u) Finch, 1. 154. (65) i Pingrey on Real... | |
 | Horace La Fayette Wilgus - 1902 - 1252 pages
...citing Finch 164 (1613): "Franchises and libertv 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 * * * they may be vested in either natural persons or bodies politic; in one man.orin many";... | |
 | Frederick Newton Judson - 1903 - 906 pages
...Definition of United States franchise. "What is a franchise? Under the English law Blackstone defines it as "a royal privilege, or branch of the King's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject." 2 Bl. Com. 37. Generalized, and divested of the special form which it assumes under a monarchical government... | |
 | William Galbraith Miller - 1903 - 504 pages
...hereditaments. — (ii. 37). " 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." Examples given are — " To hold a court leet : to have a manor or lordship, or at least to have a... | |
 | Herbert Thorndike Tiffany - 1903 - 894 pages
..."Eights as to the use and profits of another's land." Franchises. A franchise is in England- defined as "a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject";22 and in this country as "a special privilege conferred by the government upon an individual... | |
 | Herbert Thorndike Tiffany - 1903 - 1644 pages
...to the use and profits of another's land." — — Franchises. A franchise is in England defined as "a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject";22 and in this country as "a special privilege conferred by the government upon an individual... | |
 | Frederick Stroud - 1903 - 820 pages
...Franchise ' and ' LIBERTY ' are used as synonymous terms ; and their definition is, a Royal Privilege, or a branch of the King's Prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject" (2 Bl. Com. 37). Accordingly, a Patent is a " Franchise " within s. 56, Co. Co. Act, 1888 (R. v. Halifax... | |
 | William Wheeler Thornton - 1904 - 1050 pages
...The granting of a franchise is the act of a sovereign power. An old definition of it is 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 grant." 20 Franchises has... | |
 | John Chipman Gray - 1905 - 726 pages
...liberty are used as synonymous terms ; and their definition is a royal privilege, or branch of the kmg's prerogative, subsisting in the hands, of a subject....will here briefly touch upon some of the principal ; premising only, that they may be vested in either natural persons or bodies politic ; in one man... | |
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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. 
