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Chaplain [fr. Capellanus, Lat.], an ecclesiastic who performs divine service in a chapel; but it mere commonly means one who attends upon a king, prince, or other person of quality, for the performance of clerical duties in a private chapel, 4 Rep. 90....
Capellane
The curate of a chapel a chaplain...
Chaplain
An ecclesiastic who has a chapel or who performs religious service in a chapel...
Chaplaincy
The office position or station of a chaplain...
Chaplainship
The office or business of a chaplain...
Noncombatant
Any person connected with an army or within the lines of an army who does not make it his business to fight as any one of the medical officers and their assistants chaplains and others also any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army also any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy...
Annua pensione
Annua pensione, an ancient writ to provide the king's chaplain, if he had no preferment, with a pension, Reg. Brev. 165, 307....
Capital punishment
Capital punishment, inflicted in pursuance of the (English) Capital Punishment Amendment Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 24) (before which executions were public), within the prison in which the offender is confined at the time of execution, in the compulsory presence of the sheriff, gaoler, chaplain, and surgeon, and such other officers of the prison as the sheriff requires, and also in the discretionary presence of any justice of the peace for the county, etc., and of such 'relatives of the prisoner, or other persons as it seems to the sheriff or visiting justices proper to admit within the prison.'-Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law,' where see the Rules of 1888 under the Act. See SENTENCE OF DEATH.The mode in the United Kingdom is hanging, but for high treason the Crown may alter it to beheading: see the (English) Treason Act, 1814 (54 Geo. 3, c. 146), as amended by s. 31 of the Forfeiture Act, 1870....
Corody, or corrody
Corody, or corrody [fr. Conredium, corredium, conrodium, corrodium, Monk. Lat.; correlare, Ital., to fit out], a sum of money or allowance of meat, drink, and clothing due to the Crown from the abbey or other religious house, whereof it was founder, towards the sustentation of such one of its servants as is thought fit to receive it. It differs from a pension in that it was allowed towards the maintenance of any of the King's servants in an abbey; a pension being given to one of the king's chaplains, for his better maintenance, till he may be provided with a benefice, Fitz. N.B. 250....
Execution of criminals
Execution of criminals, must be performed by the legal officer-the sheriff, or his deputy. The Common Law mode of execution is by hanging, which until 1868 took place in public; but in that year the (English) Capital Punishment Amendment Act (31 & 32 Vict. c. 24), prescribed that the execution must take place within the walls of the prison, in presence of the sheriff, gaoler, chaplain, and surgeon of the prison, and such other officers of the prison as the sheriff requires, or allows. Public execution is, however, still necessary in the case of piracy with attempted murder. See PIRACY....
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