the royal prerogative• Some important areas of government activity were regulated by the royal prerogativehut could not be controlled by ultravires. 2.• For example the administration of overseas territories has been accomplished by means of orders in council issued by virtue of the royal prerogative.• Once again, the immediate issues were the royal prerogative and the high taxburdensentailed by the monarch's profligate spending.
Originprerogative
(1300-1400)Frenchprérogative, from Latinpraerogativus“voting first in a Roman election”, from rogare“to ask”