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Lych gate
Lych gate, the gate into a churchyard, with a roof or awning hung on posts over it to cover the body brought for burial, when
God's acre
God's acre, a churchyard.
Brawling
Brawling [fr. brailler, Fr., to brawl], the offence of quarrelling, or creating a disturbance in the church or churchyard, punished by 5 & 6 Edw. 4, c. 4 [partly repealed by 9 Geo. 4, c. 31, s.
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Faculties, Court of
as a licence to marry, a faculty to erect an organ in a parish church, to level a churchyard, to remove bodies previously buried, 4 Inst. 337. The Master of the Faculties (Magister ad facultates) appoints Ecclesiastical
Consecrate
Consecrate, to dedicate to sacred purposes, as a bishop by imposition of hands, or a church or churchyard by prayers, etc., Conscration is performed by a bishop or archbishop. See BISHOP.
Cemetery
Cemetery [fr. Koimhthriou, Gk., fr. Koim'w, to set to sleep], a place of burial differing from a churchyard by its locality and incidents; by its locality, as it is separate and apart from any parochial church,
Atrium
Atrium, a Court before a house, or a churchyard, Blount
Cemetery
A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead a graveyard a churchyard a necropolis
Wynton, Statute of
(13 Edw. 1, st. 2, AD 1285). Chapter 6, which prohibits the holding of fairs and markets in churchyards, is still in force. The remaining chapters were repealed as to England by the Criminal Law Act, 1827,
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