REGALIA, in law, the rights and prerogatives of a king; which, according to civilians, are six: viz. 1. The power of judicature: 2. The power of life and death: 3. The power of peace and war: 4. A right to such goods as have no owner, as waifs, estrays, &c. 5. Assessments; and, 6. The coinage of money.
Regalia is also used for the apparatus of a coronation, as the crown, the sceptre with the cross, that with the dove, St. Edward's staff, the globe, and the orb with the cross, four several swords, &c.