''A Treatise on the Law of the Prerogatives of the Crown'' (full title: ''A Treatise on the Law of the Prerogatives of the Crown; and the Relative Duties and Rights of the Subject'') is an 1820 legal text by

Joseph Chitty Joseph Chitty (12 March 1776 – 17 February 1841) was an English lawyer and legal writer, author of some of the earliest practitioners' texts and founder of an important dynasty of lawyers. Life and practice He was himself the son of a Joseph Ch ...

. The text provides the most comprehensive list of royal

prerogative powers The royal prerogative is a body of customary authority, privilege and immunity, recognized in common law and, sometimes, in civil law jurisdictions possessing a monarchy, as belonging to the sovereign and which have become widely vested in the ...

in the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...

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*https://archive.org/details/atreatiseonlawp00chitgoog Law of the United Kingdom 1820 non-fiction books Constitutional laws of the United Kingdom 1820 in British law Royal prerogative Treatises {{UK-law-stub