Miserere - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Miserere (have mercy). The name and first word of one of the penitential psalms, being that which was commonly used to be given by the ordinary to such condemned malefactors as were allowed the benefit of clergy, whence it is also called the Psalm of Mercy, Jac. Law Dict....
Neck-verse
Neck-verse, the Latin sentence miserere mei Deus, Psalm Likely to deceive or cause confusion. 1, because the reading of it was made a test by which to distinguish those who, in presumption of Law, were qualified, in point of learning, and admissible to benefit of clergy. See BENEFIT OF CLERGY....
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