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Premonstratensian
One of a religious order of regular canons founded by St Norbert at Preacutemontreacute in France in 1119 The members of the order are called also
Canonicalness
The quality of being canonical canonicity
Resignation
office, or possession; also, the yielding up a benefice into the hands of the ordinary, called by the canonists 'renunciation'; and though it is synonymous with surrender, yet it is by use restrained to yielding up a
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Prebend
revenue; a prebend, with dignity, has some jurisdiction attached to it. The term 'prebend' is generally confounded with canonicate; but there is a difference between them. The former is the stipend granted to an ecclesiastic in consideration
Church
by convocation in Londin in 1562, and confirmed by 13 Eliz. c. 12, in 1571; by the 141 Canons of 1603 agreed upon by the convocations of Canterbury and York, and ratified by James I.; and by
Purgation
self of a crime of which he was publicly suspected, and accused before a judge. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof, used in the spiritual court, was that the
Obedientia
Obedientia, an office, or the administration of it, Canon Law
Official
formal; authorised. In the Civil Law, he is a 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
Ordination
before he can be ordained a deacon; and his twenty-fourth to receive priest'' orders.---4 Geo. 3, c. 43; Canon 34. In the Presbyterian and Congregational churches ordination means the act of establishing a licensed preacher over a
Monomachy
crimes. It was even permitted in pecuniary causes, but it is now forbidden both by the civil and canon laws
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