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Lands and buildings
its component part. A somewhat similar point arose for considera-tion in Corporation of the City of Victoria v. Bishop of Vancouver Island, AIR 1921 PC 240 with reference to the meaning of the word 'building' occurring in
Knightencourt
Knightencourt, a Court which used to be held twice a year by the Bishop of Hereford.
Installation
Installation, the ceremony of inducting or investing with any charge, office, or rank, as the placing of a bishop into his see, a dean or prebendary into his stall or seat, or a knight into his order.
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Inhibition
Inhibition. An ancient synonym for PROHIBITION. In the (English) Ecclesiastical Law, the command of a bishop or ecclesiastical judge that a clergyman shall cease from taking any duty, See, e.g., Sequestration Act, 1871 (34
Induction
his church. A clerk is not complete incumbent until induction, which is performed by a mandate from the bishop to the archdeacon, or if the church be exempt from arch diaconal jurisdiction, to the chancellor or commissary,
H'retico comburendo, De
comburendo, De, an ancient common law writ against a heretic, who having been convicted of heresy by the bishop, abjured it, and afterwards fell into the same again, or some other, and was thereupon delivered over to
Plurality
provides that two benefices may be held together, by dispensation of the archbishop on the recommendation of the bishop, if the churches be within four miles of each other, and if the annual value of one does
Petty-bag Office
pews or sittings which are subject to any trust or are private property may be surrendered to the bishop and become 'subject to the same laws as to all rights and property therein as the pews and
Year
when a statute speaks of a year it must be considered as twelve calendar and not lunar months, Bishop of Peterborough v. Catesby, 1608 Cro Jac 166. For the termination of the statutory year for certain financial
Pre-contract
was good. See 32 Hen. 8, c. 28, and 2 & 3 Edw. 6, c. 23, s. 2; Bishop on Marriage and Divorce, s. 53. But pre-contract is no longer a cause for dissolving a marriage in
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