CIVIL LIST

The term formerly applied to the list of all the expenses of the government, or " of all the heads of public expenditure, excepting those of the army, the navy, and the other military departments; " but confined at present by the act 1 W. 4, c. 25. to expenses proper for the maintenance of her majesty's household. In England the civil list is fixed in tlie first se ion of parliament after the acce ion of the sovereign, and is then understood to be granted for the whole period of his reign. [s. 250]