Prerogative Court
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
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A prerogative court is a court through which the discretionary powers, privileges, and legal immunities reserved to the sovereign were exercised.
In general, this includes, in the case of England, all courts initially part of the King's Court (Curia Regis); these were the King's Bench, Common Bench, Court of the Exchequer, Court of Requests, Court of Chancery, and the Court of the Star Chamber.
In France, more commonly known as cour souveraine (literally "Sovereign's court") or cour superieure from 1661, referred to any prerogative courts of last resort in monarchical France.
Among them included the King's Council, the Court of Accounts, the Cour des aides, the Cour des monnaies, and Paris and provincial Parlements.
The term also applied to one of the English provincial courts of Canterbury and York having jurisdiction over the estates of deceased persons.
