prerequisite (as prerekwisIt)

& subst. [Pref. pre-, and Eng. requisite (q. v.).] A. As adj.: Required or nece ary beforehand; nece ary to something subsequent. "Nece arily prerequisite to the mixing these particles." -Hale: Orig. of Mankind. B. As subst.: Something previously required or nece ary for an end proposed. "The nece ary prerequisites of freedom."-Goldsmith: The Bee. *pre-rě-şõlve', v . i . [Pref.pre-, and Eng. resolve , v. (q. v.) To resolve or make up one's mind beforehand; to predetermine. "No man goes thus pre resolved to a play."- Prynne : 2 Histrio- Mastic , iv. 2. IMG:content-1487.png:[blocks in formation] had by lot the prerogative of giving their first voices." -P. Holland: Livius, p. 830. 4. An exclusive right or privilege; a right or privilege vested in, or belonging to, any person in virtue of his position or character; in a narrower sense, an official and hereditary right which may be a erted without question, and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or accountabil ity, as to the fact and the manner of its exercise. 3227 II. English Law : An exclusive privilege of the Crown, the expre ion the prerogative being employed for the whole or any part of such exclusive privilege. The prerogative may be confined or limited by the supreme legislative authority, and has in fact been much restricted, notably by Magna Charta (1215), the Habeas Corpus Act (1679), the Bill of Rights (1628), and the Act of Settlement (1639). *prerogative-court, s. An English ecclesiastical court for the trial of testamentary causes, where the deceased had left effects in two different dio ferred to the Court of Probate. ceses. It was abolished, and its jurisdiction trans