All 9 Uses of
prerogative
in
David Copperfield
- There were a great many bundles of papers on it, some endorsed as Allegations, and some (to my surprise) as Libels, and some as being in the Consistory Court, and some in the Arches Court, and some in the Prerogative Court, and some in the Admiralty Court, and some in the Delegates' Court; giving me occasion to wonder much, how many Courts there might be in the gross, and how long it would take to understand them all.†
Chpt 22-24
- If ever I bestowed a thought upon the cases, as they dragged their slow length before me, it was only to wonder, in the matrimonial cases (remembering Dora), how it was that married people could ever be otherwise than happy; and, in the Prerogative cases, to consider, if the money in question had been left to me, what were the foremost steps I should immediately have taken in regard to Dora.†
Chpt 25-27
- Taking that part of the Commons which happened to be nearest to us — for our man was unmarried by this time, and we were out of Court, and strolling past the Prerogative Office — I submitted that I thought the Prerogative Office rather a queerly managed institution.†
Chpt 31-33
- Taking that part of the Commons which happened to be nearest to us — for our man was unmarried by this time, and we were out of Court, and strolling past the Prerogative Office — I submitted that I thought the Prerogative Office rather a queerly managed institution.†
Chpt 31-33
- That, perhaps, in short, this Prerogative Office of the diocese of Canterbury was altogether such a pestilent job, and such a pernicious absurdity, that but for its being squeezed away in a corner of St. Paul's Churchyard, which few people knew, it must have been turned completely inside out, and upside down, long ago.†
Chpt 31-33
- Under the Prerogative Office, the country had been glorious.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- Insert the wedge into the Prerogative Office, and the country would cease to be glorious.†
Chpt 31-33
- He considered it the principle of a gentleman to take things as he found them; and he had no doubt the Prerogative Office would last our time.†
Chpt 31-33
- The judge of the Prerogative Court might have fallen in love with her, to see her fold her little hands and hold them up, begging and praying me not to be dreadful any more.†
Chpt 37-39
Definition:
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(prerogative) a right reserved exclusively for a particular person or group