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Marriage
English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with
Clergy
Clergy [fr. clerge, Fr.; clerus, Lat.], the assembly or body of clerks or ecclesiastics set apart from the rest of the people or laity to superintend the public worship of God and
Eleemosynary corporations
studies with greater care and assiduity. These eleemosynary corporations, though in some things partaking of the nature of ecclesiastical bodies, are, strictly speaking, lay, and not ecclesiastical, even though composed of ecclesiastical persons; and, accordingly, they are
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Vestry, or vestiary
Geo. 5, c. 51), and in rural parishes by the parish council or meeting (ibid.). As to the ecclesiastical functions in England (election of churchwardens), see Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5,
Inhibition
Inhibition. An ancient synonym for PROHIBITION. In the (English) Ecclesiastical Law, the command of a bishop or ecclesiastical judge that a clergyman shall cease from taking any duty,
Proctor
a university official of Oxford or Cambridge having disciplinary powers over members of the university. Proctors in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts formerly discharged duties similar to those of solicitors and attorneys in other courts, as and
H'retico comburendo, De
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
Crown
2 P. & M. c. 6 (see HERESY), enacted that- Such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities and pre-eminences spiritual and ecclesiastical as by any spiritualor ecclesiastical power or authority hath heretofore been or may lawfully be exercised or used
Bishop
four things necessary to his complete title: (1) election, which resembles the presentation of a clerk to an ecclesiastical benefice; (2) confirmation, which cannot be opposed on doctrinal grounds: see Reg. v. Archbishop of Canterbury, 1902 KB
Advocate
present day confined to persons professionally conducting cases in Court, i.e., Barristers and Solicitors (q.v.). In the English Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts, until 1857, certain persons learned in the civil and canon law, called advocates, had the
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