The
royal prerogative is a body of customary authority, privilege, and immunity, recognized in
common law and, sometimes, in
civil law jurisdictions possessing a monarchy, as belonging to the
sovereign alone. It is the means by which some of the
executive powers of government, possessed by and vested in a monarch with regard to the process of governance of the state, are carried out. Individual prerogatives can be abolished by Parliament, although in the United Kingdom special procedure applies.