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Scripture
Scripture. The canonical books of the Old and New Testaments. See Articles of Religion. Art. VI. All profane scoffing of theHoly
Inheritance
of inheritance. Inheritance Act.--The Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106), materially altered the old canons of real property descent, but because the Act does not extend to any descent which took place on
Births, Marriages, and Deaths
collected by a commission appointed for that purpose, and for rendering such registers and records available as evidence. Canonical Registers and Act of 1812.--The 70th Canon of 1603 prescribed that-- In every parish church and chapel within
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Churchwardens
another by the meeting, as custom directs. Where there is no custom the election must be according to Canon 89 and s. 13 above, under which they must be chosen by the joint consent of the minister
Convocation
protected from molestation by 8 Hen. 6, c. 1. Its purpose is stated to be the enactment of canon law, subject to the license and authority of the sovereign (as required by the Act of Submission [25
Dean
ten], an ecclesiastical governor or dignitary, so called as he is supposed to have originally presided over ten canons or prebendaries at the least. In cathedrals of the old foundation in England, the dean is the principal
Extravagantes
digested or arranged with the other papal constitutions, but seemed to be, as it were, detached from the canon law. They continued to be called by the same name when they were afterwards inserted in the body
Nomocanon
Nomocanon [fr. vopus, Gk., law; and kavwv a rule]. 1 A collection of canons and imperial laws relative or conformable thereto. The first nomocanon was made by Johannes Scholasticus in 554. Photius,
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
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
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