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Beneficed

Possessed of a benefice or church preferment

place of public worship within this realm of England and places aforesaid. There followed a direction to every beneficed minister to read in his church on some Sunday before august 24, 1662, a declaration of assent to

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Banking policy

refuse to issue certificates (without which a solicitor cannot practise) to bankrupt solicitors. Clergyman.--Where the bankrupt is a beneficed clergyman the trustee may apply for a sequestration of the profits of the benefice (English) (Bankruptcy Act, 1914,

Bankrupt

Canonical obedience

which a clergyman owes to the bishop who ordained him, to the bishop in whose diocese he is beneficed, and also to the metropolitan of such bishop.

Commendam

Commendam is a benefice or ecclesiastical living which, being void, is commended by the Crown to the care of a clerk until

Fieri facias de bonis ecclesiasticis

goods). When a sheriff to a common fi. fa. returns nulla bona, and that the defendant is a beneficed clerk, not having any lay fee, a plaintiff may issue a fi. fa. de bonis ecclesiasticis, addressed to

Ragman's-roll, or Ragimund's-roll

or Ragimund's-roll, a roll, called from one Ragimund, or Ragimont, a legate in Scotland, who, summoning all the beneficed clergymen in that kingdom, caused them on oath to give in the true value of their benefices, according

Sequestrari facias de bonis ecclesiasticis, Writ of

Sequestrari facias de bonis ecclesiasticis, Writ of, a process of execution issued against a beneficed clerk commanding the bishop to enter into the rectory and parish church, and to take and sequester the

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