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Of or pertaining to a diocese as diocesan missions...
Diocesan
Diocesan, belonging to a diocese; a bishop, as he stands related to his own clergy or flock...
Diocesan Courts
Diocesan Courts, the consistorial courts of each diocese, exercising general jurisdiction of all matters arising locally within their respective limits, with the exception of places subject to peculiar jurisdiction; deciding all matters of spiritual discipline-suspending or depriving clergymen-and administering the other branches of the ecclesiastical law, 2 Steph. Com....
Chorepiscopus
A ldquocountryrdquo or suffragan bishop appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district...
Benefice
Benefice [fr. beneficium, M. Lat., a kindness], an ecclesiastical living and promotion, a rectory or vicarage: all church preferments except bishoprics; also a fief in the feudal system. See s. 13(1) of the (English) Benefices Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. C. 48).The (English) Benefices Act, 1898, requires registration of the transfer of the right of patronage of a benefice, prohibits the sale of the right of the next presentation thereto, and requires a bishop before collating or admitting a clergyman to a benefice to give one month's notice to the churchwardens of the parish of the intended collation or admission.By the (English) Benefices Act, 1898 (Amendment) Measure, 1923 (14 & 15 Geo. 5, No. 1), s. 1, a right of patronage is to be incapable of sale after the benefice has been twice vacant subsequent to 14 July, 1924; and by s. 2 a patron may make a declaration under seal that his right of patronage shall thenceforth be without power of sale. And by the (English) Benefices (Transfer of...
Births, Marriages, and Deaths
Births, Marriages, and Deaths. By the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 86), amended by the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1837 (7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 22), a General Register Office is provided for keeping a register of births, deaths, and marriages in England. The Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874 [37 & 38 (English) Vict. c. 88], amends the laws relating to the Registration of Births and Deaths in England in important particulars, and consolidates the law relating to the registration of births and deaths at sea. This Act (s. 1) imposes upon the father and mother of a child, and in their default, upon the occupier of a house in which to his knowledge a child is born, the duty of giving information to the registrar within 42 days. By s. 10 a corresponding obligation to register a death is imposed upon relatives, etc.By s. 203 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, births of any child alive or dead after the twenty-eighth week of ...
Chancery Court of York
Chancery Court of York. See 37 & 38 Vict. c. 85, s. 7, and ARCHES COURT.The ecclesiatical court of province of York, responsible for appeals from provincial diocesan courts, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Chrismati denarii
Chrismati denarii chrisom pence, paid to the diocesan or his suffragan by the parochial clergy about Estate. It is otherwise called quadragesimals, or paschals, or Easter-pence. Obsolete...
Consistory Court
Consistory Court, the pr'torium, or tribunal of every diocesan bishop, held in their several cathedrals for the trial of all ecclesiastical causes arising within their jurisdiction. The bishop's chancellor, or his commissary, is the judge, and from his sentence an appeal lies, by virtue of 24 Hen. 8, c. 12, to the archbishop of each province respectively....
Dimissory, Letters
Dimissory, Letters. Where a candidate for Holy orders has a title in one diocese, and is to be ordained in another, the former diocesan sends his letters dimissory directed to some other ordained bishop, giving leave that the bearer may be ordained, and have such a cure within his district. See Cripps's Law of the Church and Clergy, 6th Edn., p. 12...
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