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Excommune

To exclude from participation in to excommunicate

De contumace capiendo

the commitment of a person pronounced by an Ecclesiastical Court to be contumacious and guilty of contempt. See EXCOMMUNICATION.

Legalis homo

Legalis homo, a person who stands rectus incuria, neither outlawed, excommunicated, nor infamous.

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Ipso facto

Ipso facto (by the very act itself). A censure of excommunication in the Ecclesiastical Court, immediately incurred for divers offences, after lawful trial.

Ignorantia facti excusat, ignorantia juris non excusat

cases this maxim applies, as if a man should think he has a right to kill a person excommunicated or outlawed wherever he meets him and does so, this is murder. But a mistake of fact is

H'retico comburendo, De

according to his Majesty's ecclesiastical laws, 'atheism, blasphemy, heresy, or schism and other damnable doctrines and opinions by excommunication, deprivation, degradation, and other ecclesiastical censures not extending to death'in such sort and no other as they might

Excommunicato recapiendo

Excommunicato recapiendo, a writ commanding that persons excommunicated, who for their obstinacy had been committed to prison, but were unlawfully set free before they had given

Excommunicato deliberando

Excommunicato deliberando, a writ to the sheriff for delivery of an excommunicated person out of prison, upon certificate from the ordinary of his conformity to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction, Fitz. N.B.

Disability

is divided into two classes: (1) absolute, which, while it continues, wholly disables the person 'such were outlawry, excommunication, attainder (but see the Forfeiture Act, 1870 (32 & 33 Vict. c.23), s. 1, abolishing attainder on conviction

Assoile

Assoile [fr. absolvere, Lat.; obsolver, absoiller, assoiler, O. Fr.], to deliver from excommunication; to acquit or absolve, Staunf. Pl. Cr. 72 a.

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