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Roman Catholics
Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 115), subjecting Roman Catholics to the same laws as Protestant dissenters in respect to schools and places for religious worship, education, and charitable purposes. Diplomatic relations with the 'Sovereign
Presbyterians
not acknowledge the authority of bishops. In England the term 'Presbyterian' originally designated a distinct body of Protestant Dissenters. The Presbyterian form of worship was established in England during the Commonwealth, and when the Presbyterian ministers who
Non-commissioned officer
to this Act. [Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950), s. 3 (xv)] [s. 132(3)(d), Cr. P.C.] Nonconformist. See DISSENTERS.
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Hindu
to refer comprehensively to various categories of people for purposes of personal law. It has been applied to dissenters and non-conformists and even to those who have entirely repudiated Brahminism. It has been applied to various religious
Deacon
earlier age. See, further, under the title CLERGY; and see Phill. Eccl. Law. (2) A lay office among dissenters.
Customary freeholds
freehold interest or estate rests with the tenant, the freehold tenure is in the lord. (Mr. Serjeant Scriven dissents from this proposition in his workon Copyholds, vol. ii. pp. 572 et seq.) They are usually transferred by
Conventicle
a private assembly or meeting for the exercise of religion; forbidden by Canons 12, 13 and 73. See DISSENTERS. By the (English) Conventicle Act, 22 Car. 2, c. 1, repealed by 52 Geo. 3, c. 155, all
Dissenterism
The spirit or principles of dissenters
Church
4, but the State has in various ways acknowledged the existence of non-conforming bodies. See WELSH CHURCH; CLERGY; DISSENTERS.'Consult Cripp's Law of the Church and Clergy; Phillimore's Ecclesiastical Law;Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Church and Clergy'; and Lely's Church
Chapel
to the Established Church are t be included. In ordinary parlance 'chapel' means a place of worship for dissenters, formerly (and more properly) called a 'meeting-house.'
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