The University was founded under the royal prerogative granted by King Alfonso V of Aragon, in Naples, on 3 November 1450.

Alphonse the Magnanimous ’ prerogative, though, was granted at the petition of the Consell de Cent, and so the council was always to consider the Estudi General created in 1450 as the city ’ s true university, since it was very much under its control and patronage.

This revised treaty granted the Principality the sovereign prerogative of establishing formal diplomatic relations with other sovereign states at the highest diplomatic level, that of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary — for the Holy See this means at the nunzorial level, i. e., that of an apostolic nunciature headed by an apostolic nuncio ( apostolic nuncios normally hold the ecclesiastical rank of archbishop ).

It is probable that Charles granted Alan the right to be titled rex ; as emperor he would have had that prerogative and Alan's use of the title appears legitimate.

The usage of Dom was a prerogative of princes of the royal blood and also of other individuals to whom it had been granted by the sovereign.

While the design of the Great Seal was a provincial prerogative, coats of arms were ( and are ) honours granted by the Sovereign.

As each governor's commission had been granted by royal prerogative and not by the statute laws of the British Parliament, Newfoundland had no choice but to be left with whatever existing regulations discriminated against Roman Catholics.

Jurisdiction over wills of personalty was until 1858 in the ecclesiastical courts, probate being granted by the diocesan court if the goods of the deceased lay in the same diocese, in the provincial court of Canterbury ( the prerogative court ) or York ( the chancery court ) if the deceased had bona notabilia, that is, goods to the value of £ 5 in two dioceses.

After much debate between Canadian and British officials, royal assent was granted, on the understanding that the clause did not in fact affect the royal prerogative to hear appeals, exercised through the Judicial Committee.

Criminal jurisdiction could, however, be granted to a trusted lord by the Crown by means of an additional franchise to give him the prerogative rights he owed feudally to the king.

Amidst fears of a Levellers revival and Royalist plots, under the prerogative granted to the Lord Protector by the Humble Petition and Advice, Oliver Cromwell dissolved Parliament on 4 February 1658.

Denization was granted by letters patent, and was granted by the monarch as an exercise of royal prerogative.

While the issue was still pending in court, the SP decided to change the course of the route, claiming that was its prerogative, despite the Department of the Interior having already granted homestead rights.

In Anglo-American common law courts, appellate review of lower court decisions may also be obtained by filing a petition for review by prerogative writ in certain cases.

The powers to review administrative decisions are usually established by statute, but were originally developed from the royal prerogative writs of English law, such as the writ of mandamus and the writ of certiorari.

the bishop was understood as the president of the council of presbyters, and so the bishop was distinguished both in honor and in prerogative from the presbyters, who were seen as deriving their authority by means of delegation from the bishop.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

The Council of Constantinople in 381 modified the situation somewhat by placing Constantinople second in honor, above Alexandria and Antioch, stating in Canon III, that "" the bishop of Constantinople ... shall have the prerogative of honor after the bishop of Rome ; because Constantinople is New Rome ".

; Royal prerogative: Reserve powers of the Canadian Crown, being remnants of the powers once held by the British Crown, reduced over time by the parliamentary system.

James tried again to gain William's support but William responded by advising James to keep to the law and not to try to extend his prerogative powers.

He later opined that the governor-general's role was more than a representative of the sovereign, explaining: " under section 2 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the Queen's representative and exercises certain royal prerogative powers and functions ; under section 61 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the holder of a quite separate and independent office created, not by the Crown, but by the Constitution, and empowered to exercise, in his own right as Governor-General and not as a representative or delegate of the Queen, all the powers and functions of Australia's head of state.

In this case, a prerogative Order in Council had been used by the prime minister ( who is the Minister for the Civil Service ) to ban trade union activities by civil servants working at GCHQ.

Election usually is the constitutional way to choose the head of state of a republic, and some monarchies, either directly through popular election, indirectly by members of the legislature or of a special college of electors ( such as the Electoral College in the United States ), or as an exclusive prerogative.

Initially, the royal prerogative in choosing his prime minister remained and contributed to governmental instability, until the introduction of the dedilomeni principle of parliamentary confidence in 1875 by the reformist Charilaos Trikoupis.

The writ of habeas corpus is one of what are called the " extraordinary ", " common law ", or " prerogative writs ", which were historically issued by the English courts in the name of the monarch to control inferior courts and public authorities within the kingdom.

Approximately 200 years after the end of Elizabeth's reign, however, a patent represents a legal obtained by an inventor providing for exclusive control over the production and sale of his mechanical or scientific invention ... the evolution of patents from royal prerogative to common-law doctrine.

The Soviets ( workers ' councils ), which were led by more radical socialist factions, initially permitted the Provisional Government to rule, but insisted on a prerogative to influence the government and control various militias.

Shia Muslims believe that just as a prophet is appointed by God alone, only God has the prerogative to appoint the successor to his prophet.

The common law ( with which the canon law is incorporated, as far as it is not contrary to the common or statute law or the prerogative of the Crown ) has been considerably modified by statute.

Over the years, this has been made more difficult by court decisions such as Sparf v. United States, which held that the judge need not inform jurors of their nullification prerogative, and United States v. Dougherty, which held that the judge need not allow defendants to openly seek jury nullification.

Although the policies remained uncontrolled by parliament, the prerogative was controllable now.

The compilation of the Hundred Rolls was followed shortly after by the issue of Westminster I ( 1275 ), which asserted the royal prerogative and outlined restrictions on liberties.

One hundred years later, Charles I of England was, it was reported, so impressed by the " frozen snow " that he offered his own ice cream maker a lifetime pension in return for keeping the formula secret, so that ice cream could be a royal prerogative.

The right to use this style or title, in our view, is within the prerogative of His Majesty and he has the power to regulate it by Letters Patent generally or in particular circumstances.

During his marriage, he had called himself " King and Emperor of Castile, Toledo, Aragón, Pamplona, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza " in recognition of his rights as Urraca's husband ; of his inheritance of the lands of his father, including the kingdom of his great-uncle Gonzalo ; and his prerogative to conquer Andalusia from the Muslims.

The Declaration made a number of much-debated rhetorical points: that Scotland had always been independent, indeed for longer than England ; that Edward I of England had unjustly attacked Scotland and perpetrated atrocities ; that Robert the Bruce had delivered the Scottish nation from this peril ; and, most controversially, that the independence of Scotland was the prerogative of the Scottish people, rather than the King of Scots.

The King maintained that it was now his sole prerogative to choose a governor-general, and he wanted Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood for the Australian post.

But the prerogative of creating peerages rested with King William IV, who recoiled from so drastic a step.

Despite the Consell de Cent's refusal to accept the concession issued by the King to found an estudi general, on 10 January 1401, Martín founded the Estudi General of Medicine in Barcelona under his royal prerogative, granting it the same privileges as those enjoyed by the University of Montpellier.

They do not include Royal House Orders, which are the personal prerogative of the King, such the House Order of Orange and the later Order of the Crown and The Order for Loyalty and Merit.

The Chancery's jurisdiction over " lunatics " came from two sources: first, the King's prerogative to look after them, which was exercised regularly by the Lord Chancellor, and second, the Lands of Lunatics Act, which gave the King ( and therefore the Chancellor ) custodianship of lunatics and their land ; the Lord Chancellor exercised the first right directly and the second in his role as head of the Court of Chancery.

Lunatics and idiots were administered separately by the Lord Chancellor under his two prerogatives ; the appeal under the King's prerogative went directly to the King, and under the Lands of Lunatics Act to the House of Lords.

On 13 November the King formally asked the Judges whether by law Felton might not be racked " and whether there was any law against it ", for said the King " if it might be done by law he would not use prerogative in this point ".

According to Title VI of the constitution, Justice in Spain " emanates from the people and is administered on behalf of the King by judges and magistrates members of the Judicial Power ..." It remains a royal prerogative for the king to appoint the twenty members to the General Council of the Judicial Power of Spain ( Spain's Supreme Court ), and then appoint the President of the Supreme Court nominated by the General Council, according to Article 122, Subsection 3, of the constitution.

His argument ( that it was the prerogative of the King to decide how a war should be fought, and he should not be second-guessed by politicians with no experience of warfare ) defeated the motion to cease employing the Hanoverian troops by 231 votes to 181.

They could have no design to diminish the prerogative, because the King hath no such prerogative.

Some nobles possess various titles that may be inherited, but the creation and recognition of titles is legally a prerogative of the King of Spain.

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, who lost the right to confer noble titles in the new constitution of 1974, still retains the prerogative to restore royal titles, but has chosen not to do so.

However, its members recommended that the Lords of the Admiralty ask King George II to exercise his royal prerogative of mercy.

Scotland's only king of arms, the Lord Lyon, exercises the royal prerogative by direct delegation from the Crown and like the Chief Herald of Ireland and the old Ulster King of Arms needs no warrant from any other office bearer.

King Louis employed his constitutional prerogative to quash the proposal, and this use of the greatly unpopular royal veto was met with a storm of protest from all quarters.

Impositions were among the prerogative rights that King James I was to give up under the Great Contract of 1610, as drawn up by Lord Treasurer Robert Cecil, then Lord Salisbury, in return for an immediate sum to pay off Royal debt and an annual subsidy that would greatly increase income.

After Moroccan independence in 1956, the Alawid Order became a prerogative of the Alawid King and his heirs ; and the Order continues through the present day, the ribbon changed to the present look after Morocco gained independence.

The abbot's princely revenue and territories made his naming a matter of considerable concern to the King of Bohemia, whose prerogative it was.

2 c. 2 ) passed during the reign of King Charles II by what became known as the Habeas Corpus Parliament to define and strengthen the ancient prerogative writ of habeas corpus, a procedural device to force the courts to examine the lawfulness of a prisoner's detention.