royal prerogative

royal prerogative
Those rights and capacities which the king enjoys alone, in contradistinction to others, and not those which he enjoys in common with any of his subjects. See 1 Bl Comm 239. A New Jersey chancellor has defined the term as "that special pre-eminence which a sovereign has over all other persons, and out of the course of the common law, by right of regal dignity." In Great Britain the royal prerogative includes the right of sending and receiving ambassadors, of making treaties, and (theoretically) of making war and concluding peace, of summoning parliament, and of refusing assent to a bill, with many other political, judicial, ecclesiastical, etc., privileges. See Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v Bramwell (DC Or) 12 F2d 307.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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