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Home Dictionary Name: pr positus ecclesiPr'positus ecclesi'
Pr'positus ecclesi', a church-reeve or church-warden....
Pr'positus vill'
Pr'positus vill', a constable of a town, or petty constable....
Count, or Countee
Count, or Countee [fr. Comte, Fr.; comes, Lat.], the most eminent dignity of a subject before the Conquest. He was pr'fectus or pr'positus comitatus, and had the charge and custody of the county; but this authority is now vested in the sheriff, 9 Rep. 46....
Praepositus
Praepositus, an officer next in authority to the alderman of a hundred, called pr'positus regius; or a steward or bailiff of an estate, answering to the wicnere, Anc. Inst. Eng.Also the person from whom descents are traced under the old canons....
Ostium ecclesi', Dower ad
Ostium ecclesi', Dower ad. See AD OSTIUM ECCLESI'....
Extra legem positus est civiliter mortuus
Extra legem positus est civiliter mortuus [Lat.], An outlaw is civilly dead....
Utlagatus est quasi extra legem positus: caput gerit lupinum
Utlagatus est quasi extra legem positus: caput gerit lupinum (7 Rep. 14), an outlaw is, as it were, put out of the protection of the law: he carries the head of a wolf....
Pr'munire
Pr'munire [fr. pr'moneri Lat., to be forewarned]. It is an offence so called from the words of the writ preparatory to the prosecution thereof: pr'munire facias A.B. (cause A.B. to be forewarned) that he appear before us to answer the contempt wherewith he stands charged; which contempt is particularly recited in the Preamble to the writ. The offence of pr'munire is, in effect, described by Balckstone to be 'introducing a foreign power into the land, and creating imperium in imperio, by paying that obedience to alien process which constitutionally belonged to the King alone'; see 4 Bl. Com. pp. 103 et seq.The statute of pr'munire (which are all still unrepealed, and are of the most confused character) were framed to encounter papal usurpation by presentation of aliens to English benefices. The first of them, called the Statutes of Provisors, was passed in 1350, in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of Edward III., and was the foundation of all the subsequent statute of pr'munire, of wh...
Ad ostium ecclesi', Dower
Ad ostium ecclesi', Dower. Where a tenant in fee-simple of full age, openly 'at the door of the church' (where all marriages were formerly celebrated) after affiance made and troth plighted between them, endowed his wife with the whole or such quantity of his land as he pleased, specifying and ascertaining the same, the wife, after her husband's death, might have entered without further ceremony. Abolished by the (English) Dower Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 105, s. 13)....
Al' ecclesi'
Al' ecclesi', the wings or side aisles of a church, Cowel...
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