Mayan Arch - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: mayan archMayan arch
A form of corbel arch employing regular small corbels...
Arches, Court of
Arches, Court of [fr. curia de arcubus, Lat.], a court of appeal belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the judge of which is called the Dean of the Arches, because his Court was anciently held in the church of Saint Mary-le-Bow (Sancta Maria de arcubus), so named from the steeple, which is raised upon pillars, built archwise. It was formerly held, as also were the other principal Spiritual Courts, in the hall belonging to the College of Civilians, commonly called Doctors' Commons. It is now held at the Church House, Westminster. Its proper jurisdiction is only over the 13 peculiar parishes belonging to the Archbishop in London, but the office of Dean of the Arches having been for a long time united to that of the Archbishiop's Official Principal, the Dean of the Arches, in right of such added office, receives and determines appeals from the sentences of all Inferior Ecclesiastical Courts within the province. There was formerly an appeal to the king in Chancery, or to a Court of De...
Dean of the Arches
Dean of the Arches, the lay judge of the Court of Arches. See ARCHES and PUBLIC WORSHIP REGULATION ACT....
Mayan
Designating or pertaining to an American Indian linguistic stock occupying the Mexican States of Veracruz Chiapas Tabasco Campeche and Yucatan together with a part of Guatemala and a part of El Salvador See 2nd Maya...
Pelvis
The pelvic arch or the pelvic arch together with the sacrum See Pelvic arch under Pelvic and Sacrum...
Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874
Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874 (English) (37 & 38 Vict. c. 85). By this Act'which proceeds on the preamble that it is expedient that in certain cases further regulations should be made for the administration of the laws relating to the performance of divine service according to the use of the Church of England'it was provided that whensoever a vacancy should occur in the office of official principal of the Arches Court of Canterbury (see ARCHES COURT), the judge appointed under that Act should become ex officio such official principal, and all proceedings thereafter taken before the judge in relation to mattes arising within the province of Canterbury should be deemed to be taken in the Arches Court of Canterbury. The Court may be set in motion on representation by one archdeacon, or churchwarden, or any three parishioners declaring themselves to be members of the Church of England: (1) that in any church any alteration in or addition to the fabric, ornaments, or furniture thereof...
Concaved
Bowed in the form of an arch called also arched...
Fauld
The arch over the dam of a blast furnace the tymp arch...
Flat footed
Having a flat foot with little or no arch of the instep suffering from fallen arches...
Glossohyal
Pertaining to both the hyoidean arch and the tongue applied to the anterior segment of the hyoidean arch in many fishes n The glossohyal bone or cartilage lingual bone entoglossal bone...
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