Caput Jejunii - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: caput jejuniiCaput jejunii
Caput jejunii, the beginning of the Lent Fast, i.e., Ash Wednesday....
Caput lupinum
Caput lupinum, a wolf's head. An outlawed felon was said to be caput lupinum, and might be knocked on the head, like a wolf....
Caput anni
Caput anni, the first day of the year....
Caput baroni'
Caput baroni', the castle or chief seat of a baron....
Caput mortuum
Caput mortuum, dead; obsolete....
Lupinum caput gerere
Lupinum caput gerere, to be outlawed, and have one's head exposed like a wolf's, with a reward to him who should take it....
Noxa sequitur caput
Noxa sequitur caput. Jus. Civ, (Guilt follows the person.)...
Rex est caput et salus reipublica
Rex est caput et salus reipublica (4 Co. 124), the king is the head and guardian of the commonwealth....
Utlagatus est quasi extra legem positus: caput gerit lupinum
Utlagatus est quasi extra legem positus: caput gerit lupinum (7 Rep. 14), an outlaw is, as it were, put out of the protection of the law: he carries the head of a wolf....
Embring days or ember days
Embring days or ember days [fr. embers; cineres, Lat., because our ancestors, when they fasted, sat in ashes, or strewed them on their heads], those days which the ancient fathers called quatuor tempora jejunii are of great antiquity in the church; they are observed on the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday next after (a) the first Sunday in Lent; (b) Whit Sunday; (c) Holyrood Day, September 14; and (d) St. Lucy's Day, December 13, Brit. c. liii.; Book of Common Prayer. Our almanacs call the weeks in which they fall the Ember weeks, and they are now chiefly noticed on account of the ordination of priests and deacons; because the 31st canon appoints the Sunday next after the Ember weeks for the solemn times of ordination, Wheatly Com. Pr....
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