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Excommunication
into the greater and the lesser; by the greater a person was excluded from the communion of the church and the company of the faithful, and was rendered incapable of any legal act; by the lesser he
Episcopacy
overlooking or overseeing; the office of a bishop who is to overlook and oversee the concerns of the church. A form of church government by diocesan bishops.
Lay Rector
the lay rector's liability to repair, see Morley v. Leacroft, 1896, P. 92, and Stuart v. Haughley Parish Church Council, 104 LJ Ch 314, with the rights to contribution from other lay impropriators. As to any right
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Resignation
Vict. c. 23, and see (English) Clergy Pensions Measure (16 & 17 Geo. 5), No. 5, and (English) Church Assembly Measure (20 & 21 Geo. 5), No. 6, provision is made for enabling the incumbent of any
Matrix ecclesias
Matrix ecclesias, the mother church, i.e., the cathedral, so called in relation to the parochial churches within the same diocese, or a parochial
Roman Catholics
'gradual suppression and final prohibition' of 'Jesuits, and members of other religious orders, communities, or societies of the Church of Rome, bound by religious or monastic vows,' with a saving, however, for any 'religious order, community, or
Deprivation
else some malfeasance or crime, as for simony; for neglecting to read the liturgy and articles in the church, and to declare assent to the same within two months after induction; or for using any other form
Vi laica removend'
Vi laica removend', a writ that lies where two persons contend for a church, and one of them enters into it with a great number of laymen, and holds out the other
Transubstantiation
into the Body and of the whole substance of the Wine into the Blood, which conversion the Catholic Church calls Transubstantiation.'-Creed of Pope Pius IV., founded on Ch. iv., sess. xiii., of the Council of Trent. Declaration
Super-institution
title, and B. is admitted and instituted on the title or presentment of another, 2 Cro. 463. A church being full by institution, if a second institution is granted to the same church this is a super-institution;
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