Damnable - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: damnableDamnability
The quality of being damnable damnableness...
Damnable
Liable to damnation deserving or for which one deserves to be damned of a damning nature...
Damnableness
The state or quality of deserving damnation execrableness...
Damnably
In a manner to incur severe censure condemnation or punishment...
Damning
That damns damnable as damning evidence of guilt...
Execrable
Deserving to be execrated accursed damnable detestable abominable as an execrable wretch...
H'retico comburendo, De
H'retico comburendo, De, an ancient common law writ against a heretic, who having been convicted of heresy by the bishop, abjured it, and afterwards fell into the same again, or some other, and was thereupon delivered over to the secular power in order that he might be burnt to death.-See Fitz. N.B. 269; Lely's Church of England Position, 179; 2 Hen. 4, c. 15; 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 6; 31 Hen. 8, c. 14. By 1 Eliz. c. 1, s. 6, all statutes relating to heresy were repealed, though somehow two men were burnt in her reign and two under James I. by 29 Car. 2, c. 9, s. 1, the writ de h'retico comburendo was abolished, but with a saving for the jurisdiction of Protestant archbishops or bishops or any other judges of any ecclesiastical courts to punish, according to his Majesty's ecclesiastical laws, 'atheism, blasphemy, heresy, or schism and other damnable doctrines and opinions by excommunication, deprivation, degradation, and other ecclesiastical censures not extending to death'in such sort and n...
Supremacy, Oath of
Supremacy, Oath of, the abolished oath prescribed for nearly 200 years, together with the oath of allegiance, was to be taken by various high officers and persons by 1 W. & M. c. 8, and also by the Bill of Rights, 1 W. & M. sess. 2, c. 2, and is to this effect:-I, A.B., to swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest and abjure as impious and heretical this damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm. Se help me God.This oath had to be taken by all clergy on their ordination until the passing of the Clerical Subscription Act, 1865, when a single oath, as prescribed by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 48, was substituted for the oaths of allegiance an...
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