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Parish Registers
Parish Registers, of baptisms, marriages, and burials directed to be kept by Canon 70, and by the Parochial Registers Act, 1812 (52 Geo. 3, c. 146), repealed as to marriages by
Presentation
the mortgagee must judge of the qualification of the nominee, Mirehouse on Advowsons, 136. A bishop has, by Canon 95 (which abridged the period from two months), 28 days for inquiry before instituting (see INSTITUTION) the clergyman
Prestimony, or Pr'stimonia
the ordinary; but of it the patron, and those who have a right from him, are the collators, Canon Law.
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Prevention
of, claim, or transact, an affair prior to an inferior one, to whom otherwise it more immediately belongs, Canon Law Term.
Sacrament
a person because he has married his deceased wife's sister, Thompson v. Dibdin, 1912 AC 533; and see Canon 27 and the ante-Communion Rubrics in the Prayer Book. The reservation of the Sacrament is unlawful, Oxford (Bishop
Registration for preservation
official extracts are equivalent to originals. See also WILLS. Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. Ecclesiastical Registration.--The 70th Canon made in 1603 directs the churchwardens of every parish to provide a register, and the minister to enter
Request, Letters of
of which the inferior judge has waived his jurisdiction under a certain form of proceeding known in the canon law by the denomination of Letters of Request, 3 Steph. Com
Res inter alios acta alteri nocere non debet
is pointed out that the maxim, in many varying forms, was well known both in the Civil and Canon Law; and see also Broom's Legal Maxims, citing the Duchess of Kingston's case, (1771) 20 How St Tr
Resale within the State
in the light of Explanation II to s. 2(o) of the State Act as it is a recognised canon of construction that an expression used in a rule, by law or form issued in exercise of power
Subp'na
a penalty. It bears a close analogy to the citation, or vocatio in jus of the Civil and Canon Laws. There are several kinds of subp'na. At Common Law there are two to compel the attendance of
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