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(prerogative orders)

Six court orders, issued in the form of a writ (originally issued by courts in the name of the monarch in exercise of the royal prerogative) directed to ...

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prerogative writs (prerogative orders)
in Australian Law Dictionary Length: 77 words
prerogative writs
in An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age Length: 37 words

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