PRIVILEGE OF PARLIAMENT
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This term denotes the privileges of the several members of either House, enjoyed by virtue of their seats. To a great extent they are customary ; and the Houses themselves are the only tribunals by which questions arising on this subject can be tried. Among these privileges are freedom of speech in debate, and freedom from arrest in civil suits. The Lords possess further the privilege of voting by proxy and of entering protests against measures of which they disapprove.
By Henry Percy Smith
