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Bastard

lawful marriage. [(English) Age of Marriage Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 36)] The civil and canon laws did not allow a child to remain a bastard if the parents afterwards intermarried, but a proposal

Burial

in the Ecclesiastical Court for improperly refusing to bury a dissenter or other person, for by the 68th canon 'no minister shall refuse or delay to bury any corpse that is brought to the church or churchyard

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marriages, and burials directed to be kept by Canon 70, and by the Parochial Registers Act, 1812 (52 Geo. 3, c. 146), repealed as to marriages by

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Manualia beneficia

Manualia beneficia, the daily distributions of meat and drink to the canons and other members of cathedral churches for their present subsistence.

Parergon

work executed in the intervals of another; a subordinate task. 2. The title of a work on the Canons, in great repute, by Ayliffe.

Papist

of Rome, maintains the supreme ecclesiastical power of the Pope, as contradistinguished from English Protestants who in Statutes, Canons, and the 36th Article of Religion maintain the supreme ecclesiastical power of the sovereign. From the date of

Paper

Tax Act, 1948 or the rules made thereunder, it has to be understood according to the aforesaid well-established canon of construction in the sense in which persons dealing in and using the article understand it. It 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

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

Obedientia

Obedientia, an office, or the administration of it, Canon Law

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