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Hierarchy
real meaning of the term, constitute a hierarchy. Hierarchy subsists as much among the chief ministers of the Church of Geneva or of Scotland as in the Church of Rome or of England.
Heresy
courts have long since ceased to exercise jurisdiction over laymen. Heresy in the clergy is punishable under the Church Discipline Act as an offence against the laws ecclesiastical, see Noble v. Voysey, (1871) LR 3 PC 357,
Heirloom
Sax., goods], personal chattels, such as charters, deeds, and evidences of title, coat armor set up in a church, or a tombstone erected there, which go to the heir, together with the inheritance. The ancient jewels of
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Five-mile Act
Five-mile Act, 35 Eliz. c. 2,whereby popish recusants, convicted for not going to church, were compelled to repair to their usual place of abode, and not to remove above five miles from
Ecclesiastic, or ecclesiastical
Ecclesiastic, or ecclesiastical, something belonging to or set apart for the church, as distinguished from civil or secular, with regard to the world. A clergyman; a priest; one consecrated to
Malediction
Malediction, A curse connected with the donation of property to a Church and applicable against any one attempting to violate the Church's rights, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 968.
First fruits
death of a tenant, which belonged to the king. Hence arose the claim of the head of the Church to the first year's profits of every clergyman's benefice; otherwise called annates or primati', transferred from the Pope
Fast-day
Fast-day, a day of mortification by religious ab-stinence. See a list of Church of England Fast-days in the Prayer-book Calendar Scheduled to the (English) Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750 (24 Geo.
Faculty
which by law he may not do, e.g., to marry without banns, to erect a monument in a church, to construct a church window, Egerton v. All of Odd Rode, 1894, P. 15, or to remove what
Easter
Ostera (oster, to rise), celebrated by the ancient Saxons early in the spring], a movable feast of the church, held in memory of our Saviour's resurrection. Easter Day, on which all the other movable feasts and holy
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