The Crown

The Crown is a political and legal concept used throughout the Commonwealth realms to describe the governing authority of the state, serving a role broadly analogous to the abstract concept of the state or the government found in legal systems shaped by Roman civil law. In common law jurisdictions that retain a monarch as head of state, the Crown personifies executive authority, is a party to prosecutions brought in the name of the monarch, and can hold property and enter contracts distinct from the reigning monarch personally. The concept allows the authority of the state to continue seamlessly across the reigns of different monarchs and underlies constitutional doctrines such as Crown immunity and Crown prerogative. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/