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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

Fornication

the offence was left to be dealt with by the spiritual Court according to the rules of the canon law. Proceedings under the canon law for incontinency have fallen into desuetude, 4 Steph. Com. See PROSTITUTE. Voluntary

Decretals

Decretals, a volume of the canon law, forming the second part, so called as containing the decrees of sundry popes; or a digest of

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Deacon

Lord's Supper. By the Clergy Ordination Act, 1804 (44 Geo. 3, c. 43), it is provided (conformably to Canon 34 of the Canons of 1603) that none shall be ordained deacon under twenty-three years, nor priest under

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

Commandments

Commandments, Table of Ten. By Canon Law (Canon 82) churchwardens are under an obligation to provide fittings and space for a table of the

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

Chancellor of a Diocese, or of a Bishop

diocese, and to adjudicate upon matters of ecclesiastical law. He is the vicar-general of the bishop, and by Canon 127 must be at least 26 years old, must be learned in the Civil and Ecclesiastical Laws, must

Canonicalness

The quality of being canonical canonicity

Protocanonical

Of or pertaining to the first canon or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture opposed to deutero canonical

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