Assertion: prerogative | /r/CapableOf | take property
Facets:
value: in the first place
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The House decided that the prerogative power carried with it an obligation to provide compensation to the owner of property for the loss (a conclusion subsequently, controversially and retrospectively overturned by statute in the War Damage Act 1965), but there is no doubt that the prerogative was available to take property in the first place.