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parish court
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Peculiars, Court of
of, a branch of, and annexed to, the Court of Arches. It has a jurisdiction over all those parishes dispersed through the province of Canterbury in the midst of other dioceses, which are exempt from the ordinary's
Modification
usually applied to the decree of the Teind Court, awarding a suitable stipend to the minister of a parish, Bell's Scots LawDict. The court must give the widest effect to the meaning of the word 'modification' used
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sheriff
[Old English scīrgerēfa, from scīr shire + gerēfa reeve (king's agent)] : an official of a county or parish charged primarily with judicial duties (as executing the processes and orders of courts and judges) … official of a county or parish charged primarily with judicial duties (as executing the processes and orders of courts and judges)
Beadle, or Bedel
crier or messenger of a Court, who cites men to appear and answer; an inferior officer of a parish or liberty. Many other kinds of subordinate officers are socalled.
Divisa
Divisa, a device, award, or decree; also a devise; also bounds or limits of division of a parish or farm, etc., Cowel. Also a Court held on the boundary, in order to settle disputes of the
Kirk-session
Kirk-session, a parochial Church Court in Scotland, consisting of the ministers and elders of each parish.
Arches, Court of
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 … Arches, Court of [fr. curia de arcubus, Lat.], a court of appeal belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the judge
Faculties, Court of
granting licences of different descriptions, as a licence to marry, a faculty to erect an organ in a parish church, to level a churchyard, to remove bodies previously buried, 4 Inst. 337. The Master of the Faculties … Faculties, Court of, a jurisdiction or tribunal belonging to the archbishop. It does not hold pleas in any suits, but
Sequestrari facias de bonis ecclesiasticis, Writ of
a process of execution issued against a beneficed clerk commanding the bishop to enter into the rectory and parish church, and to take and sequester the same, and hold them until, of the rents, tithes, and profits … the other ecclesiastical goods of the defendant, he has levied the plaintiffs' debt. The Rules of the Supreme Court provide that this writ may be issued and executed as theretofore: Ord. XLIII., r. 5. The Sequestration Act,
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