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REGALIA

Volume 3 · 113 words · 1771 Edition

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. Assentments; 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 leveral swords, &c.

in Scots law. See Law, Tit. xiii. 3.

Lord of REGALITY, in Scots law. See Law, Tit. iv. 4.