AP'ANAGE is not an English legal term, but is a technical word in the French' law, in which system it signifies the assignment or conveyance by the crown of lands and feudal rights to the princes of the royal family, that they may be enabled to maintain them selves according to their rank. (See a long article on this subject in Knight's Political Dictionary, which refers to Rotteck and Weleker, art. by P. A. Pfizer. See also Merlin's Mpertoire de Juriepriedenr-e under this head.) The word A., howeveic, is sometimes found in Scotch law-books, the Scotch lawyers having most probably derived it from France, whose system of laws was so largely imported into Scotland— Sic Court of Session itself having been modeled after the plan of the parliament of Paris. Mr. Erskine, iu his Priiiciplt$ of the Law of Scotland, book i., tit. 4, see. 8, says: " The A., or patrimony of the prince of Scotland, has been long erected into a regality jurisdiction, called the principality. It is personal to the king's eldest son, upon whose
death or succession it returns to the crown. The prince has, or may have, his own chancery, from which his writs issue, and may have his own chamberlain and other officers for receiving and managing his revenue;" and the late prof. Bell, iu his Principles of the Scotch, Lau), calls this principality the prince's "per petual A. and per sonal provision." In England, the duchy of Cornwall may be said to be an A. of the prince of Wales, in whose person, also, since the junction of the two kingdoms under the same crown, now merge the rights of the prince of Scotland. His royal highness, in fact, when he goes north, ought strictly to be called, not prince of Wales, but prince of Scotland.
In common parlance in England, the word A. is loosely used to denote any extra territorial jurisdiction or sovereignty by governments or states; and even any dignity or right enjoyed by persons of rank.