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Having relation to the grant or exercise faculty or authority privilege license or the like hence optional as facultative enactments or those which convey a faculty or permission the facultative referendum of Switzerland is one that is optional with the people and is necessary only when demanded by petition facultative studies opposed to obligatory and compulsory and sometimes used with to...
facultative reinsurance
facultative reinsurance [alluding to the faculty (i.e., power or prerogative) of the reinsurer to accept or reject the agreement] : a separate reinsurance agreement drawn up for a single risk compare treaty reinsurance ...
Magister ad facultates
Magister ad facultates, an ecclesiastical officer who grants dispensations....
treaty reinsurance
treaty reinsurance : reinsurance under a general agreement that automatically reinsures in accordance with its terms all risks of a given class to a predetermined extent as soon as they are insured by the direct underwriter compare facultative reinsurance ...
Enterobacteriaceae
a natural family of rod shaped gram negative bacteria most of which occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals and some of which grow in plants The type genus is Escherichia They are aerobic and facultatively anaerobic and may be motile or non motile Most are easily cultured on artificial growth media Both pathogenic and non pathogenic strains exist...
Erysipelothrix
a genus of non motile rod shaped Gram positive bacteria of the family Corynebacteriaceae They are facultatively anaerobic and produce acid but no gas from glucose Members of this genus are parasitic on fish birds and mammals including man The type species of the genus Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae causes erysipeloid in man...
Faculties, Court of
Faculties, Court of, a jurisdiction or tribunal belonging to the archbishop. It does not hold pleas in any suits, but creates rights to pews, monuments, and particular places and modes of burial. It has also various powers under 25 Hen. 8, c. 21, in granting licences of different descriptions, as a licence to marry, a faculty to erect an organ in a parish church, to level a churchyard, to remove bodies previously buried, 4 Inst. 337. The Master of the Faculties (Magister ad facultates) appoints Ecclesiastical notaries, and under the Public Notaries Acts, general notaries are appointed from his office. He has inherent jurisdiction to strike the name of any notary public off the roll of notaries public for misconduct (Re Champion, 1906, P. 86). See Phillimore's Eccl. Law, and see NOTARY....
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