Bishop - Law Dictionary Search Results
Dean
have sometimes both jurisdiction and cure of souls, and sometimes jurisdiction only. (3) Rural Deans, deputies of the bishop, planted all round his diocese, the better to inspect the conduct of the parochial clergy, to inquire into
Episcopus puerorum
that upon certain feasts some lay person should plait his hair and put on the garments of a bishop, and in them pretend to exercise episcopal jurisdiction, and do several ludicrous actions, for which reason he was
Miterwort
Any plant of the genus Mitella slender perennial herbs with a pod slightly resembling a bishops miter bishops cap
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Primus
One of the bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scotland who presides at the meetings of the bishops and has certain privileges
Fast-day
by which the eves of Christmas Day and other holy days are 'commanded to be fasted,' and arch-bishops, bishops and others are authorized to inquire of every person offending in the premises, and to punish offenders by
Uniformity, Act of
Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies and for establishing the Form of making, ordaining, and consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons of the Church of England' (now partly repealed), received the Royal Assent on May 19,
Official principal
Official principal, means a person appointed by an archbishop, bishop, or deacon to exercise juris-diction in and preside over an ecclesiastical court, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.
Monition
to appear in court as a defendant or to answer contempt charges. 3. A formal Notice from a bishop demanding that an offence within the clergy be corrected, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1022. Monition, a
Muta canum
a mew or kennel of hounds, one of the mortuaries to which the Crown was entitled at a bishop's decease, 2 Bl. Com. 426.
Nominatim
clerk within six months after avoidance; if he do not, and the patron presents his clerk before the bishop has taken any benefit of the lapse, he is obliged to admit such clerk, Plowd. 529. Also [see
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