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GCSE History · key term
Latin for ‘by what warrant’: inquiries requiring holders of privileges to show the authority by which they exercised them.
Used by AQA
Paper 2
Revise: Government and JusticeThe Hundred Rolls helped provide the basis for the Quo Warranto inquiries. The phrase means ‘by what warrant’: holders of liberties were asked what authority entitled them to exercise those privileges. For example, a lord claiming the right to hold a court might be required to produce a royal grant.
For Quo Warranto, distinguish limited recovery of rights from the important principle that privileges came from the Crown.
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