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Concordat

Concordat, a treaty or public act of agreement between the Pope and any prince relative to some collation of benefices.

Pardoners

Pardoners, persons who carried about the Pope's indulgences, and sold them to any who would buy them.

Dewelling-House

landlord and tenant and the house boat as a single-storey vessel, Chelsea Yacht and Boat Co. Ltd. v. Pope (CA), (2000) 1 WLR 1941. Implies a building used or capable of being used as a residence by

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Person of unsound mind

patients. See also CONCURRENT JURISDICTION; MASTER INLUNACY. See Mills and Poyser's Lunacy Practice; Archbold's Lunacy and Mental Deficiency; Pope on Lunacy; Heywood and Massey's Lunacy Practice; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Lunatics.' Under the present practice a person who

Witchcraft

selling their souls to Stan as recently as 1716, this being the last execution in England for witchcraft. Pope Alexander the Sixth nominated a commission against witchcraft in 1494; five hundred persons were burnt as witches in

Titles (Ecclesiastical)

was passed after great public excitement, in consequence of the division of England into Roman Catholic dioceses by Pope Pius IX., under Cardinal Wiseman, as Archbishop of Westminster) was never enforced, and has been repealed by the

Supremacy, Oath of

and abjure as impious and heretical this damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects or any

Rome

ss. 1 and 17, and 1 Eliz. c. 1, s. 2, forbade the payment of Peter-pence to the Pope of Rome.

Roman Catholic

Roman Catholic, means and apply to the church which regards the Pope of Rome as its spiritual head. [Christian Marriage Act, 1872 (15 of 1872), s. 3]

Peter-pence

Peter-pence, an ancient levy or tax of a penny on each house throughout England paid to the Pope, called Peter-pence, because collected on the day of St. Peter ad vincula. Abolished by 25 Hen. 8, c.

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