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Peculiar, a particular parish or church that has jurisdiction within itself, and exemption from that of the ordinary. There are several sorts:-(1) Royal peculiars which are the sovereign's free chapels, and are exempt from any jurisdiction but that of the sovereign. (2) Peculiars of the archbishops, exclusive of the bishops and archdeacons, which arose from a privilege they had to enjoy jurisdiction in such places where their seats and possessions were. (3) Peculiars of bishops, exclusive of the jurisdiction of the bishops of the diocese in which they are situate. (4) Peculiars of bishops in their own dioceses, exclusive of archdiaconal jurisdiction. (5) Peculiars of deans, deans and chapters, prebendaries, and the like, which are places wherein, by ancient compositions, the bishops have parted with their jurisdiction as ordinaries to these corporations. See Parham v. Templer, (1820) 3 Phill Ec Rep P. 245; Tomlins' Law Dict....
Peculiarness
The quality or state of being peculiar peculiarity...
Peculiars, Court of
Peculiars, Court 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 jurisdiction, and subject to the metropolitan only. All ecclesiastical causes arising within these peculiar or exempt jurisdictions are, originally, cognizable by this Court, from which an appeal lies to the Court of Arches, 3 Bl. Com. 65. See now 37 & 38 Vict. c. 85, and title PUBLIC WORSHIP REGULATION ACT....
peculiar risk doctrine
peculiar risk doctrine : a doctrine that renders an employer (as a general contractor) liable for injury caused by an independent contractor if the employer failed to take reasonable precautions against a risk particular to the employee's work that the employer should have recognized ...
Peculiarity
The quality or state of being peculiar individuality singularity...
Peculiarize
To make peculiar to set apart or assign as an exclusive possession...
Peculiarly
In a peculiar manner particularly in a rare and striking degree unusually...
Dean
Dean [fr. decanus, Lat.; deka, Gk., ten], an ecclesiastical governor or dignitary, so called as he is supposed to have originally presided over ten canons or prebendaries at the least. In cathedrals of the old foundation in England, the dean is the principal of the four chief dignitaries, exercising a general supervision over the other members of the capitular body, with special reference to the cure of souls. In cathedrals of the new foundation, the duties of the deans are defined by the statutes of each chapter.Considered in respect of the differences of office, deans are of six kinds:--(1) Deans of Chapters, who are either of cathedral or collegiate churches. (2) Deans of Peculiars, who have sometimes both jurisdiction and cure of souls, and sometimes jurisdiction only. (3) Rural Deans, deputies of the bishop, planted all round his diocese, the better to inspect the conduct of the parochial clergy, to inquire into and report dilapidations, and to examine the candidates for confirmat...
Briticism
A word phrase or idiom peculiar to Great Britain any manner of using a word or words that is peculiar to Great Britain...
Idiocrasy
Peculiarity of constitution that temperament or state of constitution which is peculiar to a person idiosyncrasy...
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