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Definition of Regality
1. n. Royalty; sovereignty; sovereign jurisdiction.
Definition of Regality
1. Noun. Royalty; sovereignty; sovereign jurisdiction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Regality
1. regal authority [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Regality
Literary usage of Regality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant: With an Appendix Containing by Robert Hunter, William Guthrie (1876)
"The statutes specially applicable to burghs of regality have no statutes as ...
19 and 20, confers on burghs of regality and barony certain commercial ..."
2. Manual of the Law of Scotland by John Hill Burton (1847)
"Burghs of regality and Barony. The chief distinction between burghs of regality
and barony, and royal burghs, arose from the latter being exclusively ..."
3. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1824)
"The grantees, though commoners, were called Lords of regality, ... And on this
medium, royal palaces, though locally situated in boroughs of regality, ..."
4. The County Palatine of Durham: A Study in Constitutional History by Gaillard Thomas Lapsley (1899)
"General Nature of the Bishop's regality. FROM the thirteenth century onward the
Bishops of Durham were commonly reported to have, within their bishopric, ..."
5. The County Palatine of Durham: A Study in Constitutional History by Gaillard Thomas Lapsley (1900)
"For the purposes of this study it is convenient to consider the attributes of
the Bishop's regality under three categories, namely, powers in imperio, ..."
6. The History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI by William Robertson, T. Cadell, Arthur Matthew Connolly, En Dieu est tout (1781)
"... whether civil or criminal, were tried by judges, whom the lord of. the regality
appointed; and if the king's courts called any ..."
7. Historical and Statistical Account of Dunfermline by Peter Chalmers (1844)
"Privilege of regality.—The abbey possessed the very important right or privilege
of a free regality, that is, had an exclusive civil and criminal ..."
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