Faculty
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Faculty, 'Faculty' means Faculty of the University. [Central Agricultural University Act, 1992 (40 of 1994), s. 2(k)]
[fr. facultas, Lat., power], a licence or authority; in Ecclesiastical Law a privilege granted by the ordinary to a man by favour and indulgence to do that which by law he may not do, e.g., to marry without banns, to erect a monument in a church, to construct a church window, Egerton v. All of Odd Rode, 1894, P. 15, or to remove what has been put up under a previous faculty (Re St. Margaret's, Westminster, 1905, P. 286), and see NOTARY and previous title.
[fr. facultas, Lat., power], a licence or authority; in Ecclesiastical Law a privilege granted by the ordinary to a man by favour and indulgence to do that which by law he may not do, e.g., to marry without banns, to erect a monument in a church, to construct a church window, Egerton v. All of Odd Rode, 1894, P. 15, or to remove what has been put up under a previous faculty (Re St. Margaret's, Westminster, 1905, P. 286), and see NOTARY and previous title.
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