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Holy orders. These are, in the English Church, the orders of bishops (including archbishops), priests, and deacons. See CLERGY; DEACON; PRIEST...
Orders of the Clergy
Orders of the Clergy. See HOLY ORDERS...
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...
Si quis
Si quis [Lat.] (if any one), in ecclesiastical law, a notification published in the parish church of the parish where a candidate for Holy Orders resides, that 'if any one' (si quis) knows of any just cause for which he ought not to be admitted to Holy Orders, he is to declare the same or signify the same to the Bishop....
Clergy
Clergy [fr. clerge, Fr.; clerus, Lat.], the assembly or body of clerks or ecclesiastics set apart from the rest of the people or laity to superintend the public worship of God and the other ceremonies of religion, and to administer spiritual counsel and instruction.--The clergy were before the Reformation divided into (1) regular, who lived under certain rules, being of some religious order, and were called men of religion, or the religious, such as abbots, priors, monks, etc.; and (2) secular, who did not live under any certain rules of the religious orders, as bishops, deans, parsons, etc. Now the term comprehends all persons in holy orders and in ecclesiastical offices, viz., archbishops, bishops, deans and chapters, archdeacons, rural deans, parsons (either rectors or vicars) and curates, to which may be added parish clerks. The clergy are exempt from serving on juries; restrained from farming more than 80 acres, except with the sanction of the bishop, and cannot carryon any trade....
Ordination
Ordination, the conferring of holy orders. The first thing necessary on application for only orders is the possession of a title--that is, a sort of assurance from a rector to the bishop that, provided the latter finds the person fit to be ordained, the former will take him for his curate, with a stated salary. The candidate is then examined by the bishop or his chaplain respecting both his faith and his erudition; and various certificates are necessary, particularly one signed by the clergyman of the parish in which he has resided during a given time. the candidate has to comply with the requirements of the Clerical Subscription Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 122) (see CLERICAL SUBSCRIPTION); and a clerk must have attained his twenty-third year before he can be ordained a deacon; and his twenty-fourth to receive priest'' orders.---4 Geo. 3, c. 43; Canon 34.In the Presbyterian and Congregational churches ordination means the act of establishing a licensed preacher over a congregation with...
Clerico infra sacros ordines constituto, non eligendo in officium
Clerico infra sacros ordines constituto, non eligendo in officium, a writ directed to those who have thrust a bailiwick or other office upon one in holy orders, charging them to release him, Ibid. 143....
Dean
Dean [fr. decanus, Lat.; deka, Gk., ten], an ecclesiastical governor or dignitary, so called as he is supposed to have originally presided over ten canons or prebendaries at the least. In cathedrals of the old foundation in England, the dean is the principal of the four chief dignitaries, exercising a general supervision over the other members of the capitular body, with special reference to the cure of souls. In cathedrals of the new foundation, the duties of the deans are defined by the statutes of each chapter.Considered in respect of the differences of office, deans are of six kinds:--(1) Deans of Chapters, who are either of cathedral or collegiate churches. (2) Deans of Peculiars, who have sometimes both jurisdiction and cure of souls, and sometimes jurisdiction only. (3) Rural Deans, deputies of the bishop, planted all round his diocese, the better to inspect the conduct of the parochial clergy, to inquire into and report dilapidations, and to examine the candidates for confirmat...
Ordines majores et minores
Ordines majores et minores. The holy orders of priest, deacon, and sub-deacon, any of which qualified for presentation and admission to an ecclesiastical dignity or cure, were called ordines majores; and the inferior orders of chanters, psalmists, ostiary, reader, exorcist, and acolyte, were called ordines minores; persons ordained to the ordines minores had their prima tonsura different from the tonsura clericalis, Cowel....
Reverend
Reverend, not a title of honour or dignity, and a person prefixing it to his name does not thereby claim to be in Holy Orders; see Keet v. Smith, (1875) 1 PD 73, in which case the incumbent of a parish having refused to allow a tombstone describing the deceased as a daughter of the 'Rev. H Keet, Wesleyan Minister,' to be erected in his churchyard, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, allowing an appeal, ordered a faculty to issue for the erection of the tombstone....
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