regality

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   historical Scots law: territorial jurisdiction of a royal character granted by the Crown to a lord, or the territory subject to it

   As lord of regality, he exercised extensive civil and criminal jurisdiction within the estate.

2. 2
   noun

   royal authority, status, privilege, or dignity

   The ceremony displayed every outward sign of the monarch's regality.

From Middle English regalite, Old French regalite, and Medieval Latin regalitas, from Latin regalis ('royal'). In Scots law, a regality was a Crown grant giving a territorial lord unusually broad judicial powers.

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