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Non-residentio pro clerico regis
Non-residentio pro clerico regis, a writ addressed to a bishop, charging him not to molest a clerk employed in the royal service, by reason of his non-residence; in
Official
minister of, or attendant upon, a magistrate. In the Canon Law, he is the person to whom a bishop commits the charge of his spiritual jurisdiction; there is one in every diocese, called officialis principalis, i.e., chancellor;
Oswald's law hundred
Oswald's law hundred, an ancient hundred in Worcestershire, so called from Bishop Oswald, who obtained it from King Edgar to be given to St. Mary's Church in Worcester. It was
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Onus episcopale
Onus episcopale, ancient customary payments from the clergy, to their diocesan bishop, of synodals, pentecostals, etc.
Option
Option. 1. When a new suffragan bishop is consecrated by the archbishop of the province, by a customary prerogative, the archbishop claims the collation of
Ordinary of assize and sessions
Ordinary of assize and sessions, a deputy of the bishop of the diocese, anciently appointed to give malefactors their neckverses, and judge whether they read or not; also
Oswald's law
by which was effected the ejection of married priests, and the introduction of monks into churches, by Oswald, Bishop of Worcester, about A.D. 964.
Pascha rents
Pascha rents, yearly tributes paid by the clergy to the bishop or archdeacon at their Easter visitations.
Patriarch
Patriarch, the chief bishop over several countries or provinces, as an archbishop is of several dioceses, God. 20.
Market, Court of the Clerk of the
they were according to the true standard thereof, which standard was anciently committed to the custody of the bishop, who appointed some clerk under him to inspect abuses; and hence this officer, though usually a layman, was
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