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REGALIA

Volume 9 · 95 words · 1778 Edition

in law, the rights and prerogatives of a king. See PREROGATIVE.

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.—The regalia of Scotland were deposited in the castle of Edinburgh in the year 1707, and are said to be still kept there; but they are never shown to any body.

Lord of REGALITY, in Scots law. See Law, No clvii. 4.

Court of REGARD. See FOREST COURTS.