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Laity
Laity [fr. Gk., people], the people, as distinguished from the clergy. See LAYMAN.
Monition
or to answer contempt charges. 3. A formal Notice from a bishop demanding that an offence within the clergy be corrected, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1022. Monition, a summons or citation; a direction by an
L'sione fidei, suits pro
for spiritual offences against conscience, for non-payment of debts, or breaches of civil contracts. By entertaining them the clergy attempted to turn the Spiritual Courts into tribunals for the administration of equity; but these suits were prohibited
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M
M, the brand or stigma of a person convicted of manslaughter and admitted to the benefit of clergy. It was burned on the brawn of the left thumb. Abolished.
Miserere
commonly used to be given by the ordinary to such condemned malefactors as were allowed the benefit of clergy, whence it is also called the Psalm of Mercy, Jac. Law Dict.
Kalend'
Kalend', rural chapters, or conventions of the rural dean and parochial clergy, which were formerly held on the calends of every month; hence the name, Paroch. Antiq. 604.
Mortuary
originally only voluntary bequests to the church, being intended as a kind of expiation and amends to the clergy for personal tithes and other duties not paid by the deceased in his lifetime. It was usual in
King's Books
ecclesiastical benefice and preferment, according to which valuation the first-fruits and tenths were collected and paid, and the clergy rated. This value was certified by certain commissioners, pursuant to 26 Hen. 8, c. 3, confirmed by 1
Heresy
in the Ecclesiastical Courts, which 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,
Jury
aliens, felons, lunatics, blind and deaf persons, are disqualified. Exemption from service may be claimed by peers, M.P.'s, clergy-men, ministers and priests, judges, magistrates, barristers and solicitors in actual practice, notaries public, officers of both Houses of
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