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Ecclesiastical Law, the law administered in the ecclesiastical courts; it is derived from the Civil and Canon Law. Consult Phillimore's Ecclesiastical Law; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Church and Clergy.'The body of law derived largely from Cannon and Civil Law and administered by ecclesiastical courts, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 530....
Leases, Ecclesiastical
Leases, Ecclesiastical. Leases by ecclesiastical corporations are made under certain restrictions imposed by statutes of which the principal one is the (English) Ecclesiastical Leasing Act,1842, and see (English) Agric. Holdings Act, 1923, ss. 20 and 26. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Lease (Ecclesiastical)'; Woodfall, 'Landlord and Tenant.'...
ecclesiastical court
ecclesiastical court : a court having jurisdiction in ecclesiastical affairs : a tribunal in an ecclesiastical body called also Court Christian ...
Ecclesiastic, or ecclesiastical
Ecclesiastic, or ecclesiastical, something belonging to or set apart for the church, as distinguished from civil or secular, with regard to the world.A clergyman; a priest; one consecrated to the service of Church, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 525....
Titles (Ecclesiastical)
Titles (Ecclesiastical). By the (English) Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Act, 1851, the assumption of the title of archbishop or bishop of a pretended province or diocese, or archbishop or bishop of a city, place, or territory in England or Ireland, not being the see, province, or diocese of an archbishop or bishop, recognized by law, was prohibited under penalties; but this Act (which was passed after great public excitement, in consequence of the division of England into Roman Catholic dioceses by Pope Pius IX., under Cardinal Wiseman, as Archbishop of Westminster) was never enforced, and has been repealed by the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, 1871....
Ecclesiastical
Of or pertaining to the church relating to the organization or government of the church not secular as ecclesiastical affairs or history ecclesiastical courts...
Ecclesiastically
In an ecclesiastical manner according ecclesiastical rules...
Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England
Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, a body corporate established by the (English) Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 77), the long preamble of which sets out the recommenda-tions as to the more equal distribution of episcopal duties and revenues of two previous Royal Commissions, empowered to suggest measures conductive to the efficiency of the Established Church to be ratified by Orders in Council. Church Estate Commissioners are appointed ex officio members of this corporation. See (English) amending Acts of 1840, 1841, 1850, 1860, and 1873 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 113; 4 & 5 Vict. c. 39; 13 & 14 Vict. c. 94; 23 & 24 Vict. c. 124; 36 & 37 Vict. c. 64); and subsequent Acts; and CHURCH BUILDING ACTS; also (English) Welsh Church Act, 1914 (4 & 5Geo. 5, c. 91).A group of people empowered to suggest measures to improve the established Church's efficiency, to be rectified by order's in council, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 530....
Ecclesiastical dilapidations
Ecclesiastical dilapidations. The liability of an incumbent to make good dilapidations in the parsonage house is governed by the (English) Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1923 to 1929 (14 & 15 Geo. 5, No. 3, and 19 & 20 Geo. 5, No. 3), which have replaced the former (English) Acts (34 & 35 Vict. c. 43 and 35 & 36 Vict. c. 96). The 54th section of the (English) Act of 1871 directs incum-bents to insure....
ecclesiastical law
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