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Solemnity
A rite or ceremony performed with religious reverence religious or ritual ceremony as the solemnity of a funeral a sacrament
Gandharva marriage
a total misconception of the leading texts of the Smritis. It may be noted that the essential marriage ceremonies are as much a requisite part of this form of marriage as of any other unless it is
Dowry
as between the spouses. For example, some customary payments in connection with birth of a child or other ceremonies are prevalent in different societies. Such payments are not enveloped within the ambit of 'dowry', Satvir Singh v.
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Customary freeholds
Customary freeholds have been converted into 'socage tenure' by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, s. 189, see COPYHOLD. Owing to its historical intrest the following note has been preserved unaltered from the previous edition...
Countermand
Countermand, the revocation of an act; where a thing done is afterwards, by some act or ceremony, made void by the person who did it, it is either express,or implied by law. No notice of trial...
Confirmation of Bishop
Confirmation of Bishop, the ratification by the arch-bishop of the election of a bishop by dean and chapter under the king's letter missive prior to the consecration of the bishop by the archbishop, as directed (see...
Commission day
Commission day, the opening day of the assize; so called because on that day the Royal Commission to the judges was formerly read in Court-a ceremony dispensed with by Rule 14 of the Circuits Order, 1884,...
Clergy
from the rest of the people or laity to superintend the public worship of God and the other ceremonies of religion, and to administer spiritual counsel and instruction. --The clergy were before the Reformation divided into (1)
City's cash
revenues derived from the corpora-tion's estates are usually known as 'city's cash', and are applied for charitable, educational, ceremonial and other purposes, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 29, para 60, p. 45.
Champion of the King (or Queen)
Champion of the King (or Queen), an ancient officer, whose duty (hereditary in the family of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire) it was to ride armed cap-a-pie into Westminster Hall at the coronation, while the king was at...
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