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Quare impedit
High Court. The judgment is that the successful party recover his presentation, and a writ issues to the bishop, commanding him to admit his presentee. In cases where there is an appeal to the archbishop and a
Name
from the father, 4 Rep. 170. A Christian name may be altered at confirmation with consent of the bishop, and the bishop is directed by a Constitution of 1281 to change 'wanton names' at confirmation. See Blunt's
Consecrate
Consecrate, to dedicate to sacred purposes, as a bishop by imposition of hands, or a church or churchyard by prayers, etc., Conscration is performed by a bishop
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a cathedral church, consisting of canons or prebendaries whereof the dean is the head, all subordinate to the bishop, to whom they act as assistants in matters relating to the church, for the better ordering and disposing
Canonical obedience
Canonical obedience, that duty 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
Advowson
in gross upon his heir or devisee, Mirehouse on Advowsons, 20. (II.) A collative advowson arises when a bishop has the right of patronage. Collation is the conferring of a benefice by a bishop. It is an
Episcopacy
Government of the church by bishops church government by three distinct orders of ministers bishops priests and deacons of whom the bishops have an
Bounty of Queen Anne
this principle to exempt the smaller livings from the incumbrance of those demands; and, for that end, the bishops of each diocese were directed to inquire and certify into the Exchequer what livings did not exceed 50l.
Ordination
only orders is the possession of a title--that is, a sort of assurance from a rector to the bishop that, provided the latter finds the person fit to be ordained, the former will take him for his
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 same, and hold them
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