Skip to content

Holy Orders - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Holy orders

Matched in: Term Holy orders

Marriage

is necessary under the Act, or knowingly and wilfully consent to or acquiesce in the person not in holy orders.' As to marriage by a pretended clergyman, Sir William Scott, afterwards Lord Stowell, in Hawke v. Corri, (1820) … if a marriage is had by the ministration of a person in the church, who is ostensibly in holy orders and is not known or suspected to be otherwise, such marriage shall be supported,' and the wording of

Si quis

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 … 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.

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Coat armour

Coat armour. Coats of arms were introduced by Richard I., from the Holy Lond, where they were first invented. Originally they were painted on the shields of the Christian knights, who … the Holy Land during the crusades, for the purpose of identifying them, some such contrivance being necessary in order to distinguish knights when clad in armour from one another, Bl. Com. 306'

Clergy

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)

Orders of the Clergy

Orders of the Clergy. See HOLY ORDERS

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

Clerico infra sacros ordines constituto, non eligendo in officium

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

are deans of peculiars without cure of souls, who therefore may be, and frequently are, persons not in holy orders. Their appointments are either elective, as deans of chapters of the old foundation, though the Crown has, in

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

  • ‹ Prev
  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial