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Burial

48. See CORONER. A clergyman may be prosecuted in the Ecclesiastical Court for improperly refusing to bury a dissenter or other person, for by the 68th canon 'no minister shall refuse or delay to bury any corpse

Separatist

one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged a seceder from an established church a dissenter a nonconformist a schismatic a sectary

Sectary

or disciple of some particular teacher in philosophy or religion one who separates from an established church a dissenter

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Nonconformist

conform to an established church especially one who does not conform to the established church of England a dissenter

Meetinghouse

used as a place of worship a church in England applied only to a house so used by Dissenters

Disassenter

One who disassents a dissenter

opinion

who agrees with the result in a case but not necessarily with the reasoning used to reach it dissenting opinion : an opinion by a judge who disagrees with the result in a case majority opinion :

Transfer of Land Acts (English)

Committee of House of Commons on Land Titles and Transfers, 1879. Compulsory registration on Order of Council not dissented from by the local county council was introduced by the Land Transfer Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict.

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