Discreet - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Possessed of discernment especially in avoiding error or evil and in the adaptation of means to ends prudent sagacious judicious not rash or heedless cautious...
Indiscreet
Not discreet wanting in discretion...
Prudent
Sagacious in adapting means to ends circumspect in action or in determining any line of conduct practically wise judicious careful discreet sensible opposed to rash as a prudent man dictated or directed by prudence or wise forethought evincing prudence as prudent behavior...
Prudential
Proceeding from or dictated or characterized by prudence prudent discreet sometimes selfish or pecuniary as distinguished from higher motives or influences as prudential motives...
Jury of matrons
Jury of matrons is a jury composed entirely of matrons, which is impaneled in two cases only: (1) upon a writ de ventre inspiciendo, which see; (2) where a female prisoner is condemned to be executed, and pleads pregnancy as a ground to postpone the completion of the sentence until after her confinement. Upon this a jury of matrons, or discreet women, inquire into the plea; should they bring in their verdict that the prisoner is enceinte, the execution is stayed until the birth of the child, after which, as a rule, the Crown commutes the punishment....
Side-men, or Sides-men (Synods-men)
Side-men, or Sides-men (Synods-men), two or three or more discreet persons acting as assistants to the churchwardens in collecting alms and maintaining order. They are elected by the Parochial Church meeting and the incumbent jointly under the Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, No. 1), s. 14. See Prideaux's Churchwarden's Guide, 16th Edn., by Mackarness....
Suffragan
Suffragan. Bishops are styled suffragan, a word signifying deputy, in respect of their relation to the archbishop of their province. But formerly each archbishop and bishop had also his suffragan to assist him in conferring orders, and in other spiritual parts of his office within his diocese. These are called suffragan bishops, and resemble the chorepiscopi, or bishops of the country, in the early times of the Christian Church. How this inferior order of bishops may be appointed and consecrated for twenty-five towns therein specified (including Thetford, Grantham, and Gloucester) is regulated by 26 Hen. 8, c. 14, which enacts that every archbishop and bishop disposed to have a suffragan should name to the king 'two honest and discreet spiritual persons, being learned and of good conversation,' and that each of them should request the king to appoint one of them. Notwithstanding this statute, it was not until very recent years, when the suffragans were appointed for a few of the specif...
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