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Significavit

the judges, commanding them to stay any suit depending between such and such parties by reason of an excommunication alleged against the plaintiff, etc., Reg. Brev. 7.

De contumace capiendo

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

Brawling

as to laymen by the (English) Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 32)], by excommunication and suspension, and also, by the unrepealed but disused 1 Mary, st. 2, c. 3, by imprisonment until

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Assoile

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

Absolve

Absolve, to acquit of a crime, to pardon or set free from excommunication. See ASSOILE.

Reaggravation

The last monitory published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication

Excommunion

A shutting out from communion excommunication

Excommunicable

Liable or deserving to be excommunicated making excommunication possible or proper

Catechise

suspension for the second offence, and, 'there being little hope that the minister will be therein reformed', of excommunication for the third, to continue until reformation; and see also the Rubrics subjoined in the Prayer Book to

Excommunicato deliberando

Excommunicato deliberando, a writ to the sheriff for delivery of an excommunicated person out of prison, upon certificate from

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