Sentence examples for prerogative right from inspiring English sources

But immunity relates to the prerogative right not to have sovereign property subject to suit; fairness has been thought to require that when the sovereign seeks recovery, it be subject to legitimate counterclaims against it.

In November 1627, the test case in the King's Bench, the "Five Knights' Case", found that the king had a prerogative right to imprison without trial those who refused to pay the forced loan.

The democratisation of these prerogative rights is now being increasingly challenged by all the political parties.

Elizabeth had sense enough to avoid a showdown with the Commons, and she retreated under parliamentary attack on the issue of her prerogative rights to grant monopolies regulating and licensing the economic life of the kingdom, but on the subject of her religious settlement she refused to budge.

That would be your prerogative, your right as an owner.

Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, proposed a set of revolutionary data-protection laws that would force sites like Facebook and Twitter to delete personal information at the request of users, establishing a new, and valuable, prerogative — "the right to be forgotten".

Valencia said the country would respond to the lawsuit and that it had the "absolute prerogative and right" to protect its offices, workers and Assange himself inside its embassy.

As discussed below, standard philosophical views maintain that there are good reasons for thinking that, with one important exception, third-party forgiveness is impossible, inasmuch as forgiveness is the prerogative or right of the victim of wrong.

That is to lose their prerogatives, their rights to an absolute state.

In refusing to accept Christ's grotesque execution as defeat, as a total forfeiture of all prerogatives, his rights and freedom as a human being, we fail to heed the demand on us for repentance and self-reflection.

If somebody has to apply and transpose legislation in accordance with this principle, then logically they must also be able to defend their prerogatives and rights.