Levitical - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: leviticalLevitical
Of or pertaining to a Levite or the Levites...
Levitically
After the manner of the Levites in accordance with the levitical law...
Levitical degrees
Levitical degrees, degrees of kindred within which persons are prohibited to marry. They are set forth in the eighteenth chapter of Leviticus. By 32 Hen. 8, c. 38, it is declared that all persons may lawfully marry, but such as are prohibited by God's law; and it is declared by the same statute, that 'no reservation or prohibition (God's law except) shall trouble or impeach any marriage without the Levitical degrees.' See MARRIAGE....
Levitate
To rise or tend to rise as if lighter than the surrounding medium to become buoyant opposed to gravitate...
Levite
One of the tribe or family of Levi a descendant of Levi esp one subordinate to the priests who were of the same tribe and employed in various duties connected with the tabernacle first and afterward the temple such as the care of the building bringing of wood and other necessaries for the sacrifices the music of the services etc...
Leviticus
The third canonical book of the Old Testament containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the Hebrews or the body of the ceremonial law...
magnetic levitation
The process of supporting an object such as a vehicle with a magnetic field so that it does not contact the object supporting it it is a method used for eliminating friction in moving vehicles and is used eg in high speed rail technology where a train is suspended on a magnetic cushion above a magnetized track and so travels free of friction...
VerbarNethinim
Servants of the priests and Levites in the menial services about the tabernacle and temple...
Incest
Incest, carnal knowledge of persons within the Levitical degrees of kindred, at one time a capital offence (4 Bl. Com. 65); but subsequently left to the action of the spiritual courts, 4 Steph. Com. It is now within certain relationships, whether legitimate or illegitimate, including a half-brother and half-sister, a misdemeanor, punishable by seven years' penal servitude by virtue of the Punishment of Incest Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 45). See R. v. Ball, 1911 AC 47. Sect. 5 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1922, repeals the provision in the Act of 1908 which necessitated the trial of all proceedings under that Act being held in camera (q.v.).Means sexual relations between family members or close relatives, including children related by adoption. Incest was not a crime under English common law but was punished as an ecclesiastical offense. Modern statutes make it a felony, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 764....
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