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Ordinary
delegation, Civ. Law. See NOTARY. By the Common Law, one who has exempt and immediate jurisdiction in causes ecclesiastical. Also, a bishop: and an archbishop is the ordinary of the whole province, to visit and receive appeals
Foregift
Foregift, a premium for a lease, frequently forbidden to be taken for an ecclesiastical lease; see, e.g., the (English) Ecclesiastical Leases Act, 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 108), s. 30.
Glebe
Glebe, the land possessed as part of the property of an ecclesiastical benefice. The soil of an inheritance; an agrarian estate, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 698. As to
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Heresy
at Common Law; that is, it left the simple offence to be visited by spiritual punishment in the Ecclesiastical Courts, which courts have long since ceased to exercise jurisdiction over laymen. Heresy in the clergy is punishable
Monition
be corrected, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1022. Monition, a summons or citation; a direction by an ecclesiastical judge to a defendant to abstain from practices contrary to ecclesiastical law; see Dale's case, (1881) 7 QBD
Mortmain
hand that cannot shift away the property. It takes place upon alienation to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal, 2 Bl. Com. 268. By several old statutes, alienation of lands and tenements in mortmain, i.e.,
Offence
are certain acts which are heinous sins and odious in the public eye and are punishable in the Ecclesiastical Courts, but not being punishable at Common Law, and the proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts being held to
Plenary
complete; an ordinary proceeding through all its gradations and formal steps, opposed to summary. Plenary causes in the Ecclesiastical Courts re reduced to the following: (1) Suits for ecclesiastical dilapidations. (2) Suits relating to seats or sitting-places
Papist
papa, Lat., a pope], one who, adhering to the communion of the Church of Rome, maintains the supreme ecclesiastical power of the Pope, as contradistinguished from English Protestants who in Statutes, Canons, and the 36th Article of
Parsonage
Repair Act, 1776, the Parsonages Act, 1865, and the Parsonages Measure, 1930; and as to dilapidations, see the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Acts, 1871 and 1872, and the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1923-1929. Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Church and Clergy.'
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