abstract:A regality was a territorial jurisdiction in old Scots law which might be created by the King only, by granting lands to a subject in liberam regalitatem, and also the tract of land over which such a right extended.
It was the charismatic, even sacral powers of the king, and not bureaucracy, that underpinned regality in the reign of Henry VIII, and such powers were concentrated in the Privy Chamber, the innermost sanctum of the court, and not in institutions such as the exchequer, the courts of law, or even Parliament.