prerogative : Idioms & Phrases
Prerogative Court
(Eng. Law) , a court which formerly had authority in the matter of wills and administrations, where the deceased left bona notabilia, or effects of the value of five pounds, in two or more different dioceses. Blackstone.
Webster 1913
Prerogative office
- the office in which wills proved in the Prerogative Court were registered.