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Home Dictionary Name: prayerBidding Prayer
Bidding Prayer, an old form of prayer used before sermon, exhorting the people to pray for men of all conditions. A similar prayer for the University is used in the University Churches of Oxford and Cambridge....
prayer
prayer : the part of a pleading (as a complaint) that specifies the relief sought ;also : a request for relief or some other action by the court ...
Bidding prayer
The prayer for the souls of benefactors said before the sermon...
Prayerful
Given to prayer praying much or often devotional...
Age-prier, or prayer
Age-prier, or prayer, ['tatis precatio,:at.], to pray age; thus, when an action is brought against a minor for the recovery of lands, which he possesses by descent, he petitions or moves the Court to stay the action until he attain his majority, which is generally acceded to, Termes de la Ley....
Aid prayer
Aid prayer, formerly made use of in pleading for a petition in Court, praying in aid of the tenant for life, etc., from the reversioner or remainderman, when the title to the inheritance was in question. It was a plea in suspension of the action, Com. Dig. 'Abide,' B. 5....
Prayer Book
Prayer Book. See UNFORMITY, ACT OF....
Prayer for the Dead
Prayer for the Dead. A bequest of personal estate for masses for the dead is not void as a gift to superstitious uses, Bourne v. Keane, 119 AC 815; overruling West v. Shuttleworth, (1835) 2 My&K 684, and the cases decided thereunder. See also O'Hanlon v. Logue, (1906) 1 Ir 247, and Re Caus. Lindenboom v. Camille, 1934 Ch 162, A tombstone bearing an inscription 'Of your charity pray for the repose of the soul of' or similar words can be removed, Pearson v. Stead, 1903, P. 66, but see Capel St. Mary v. Packard, 1927, P. 289....
Procedendo on aid prayer
Procedendo on aid prayer. If one pray in aid of the Crown in real action, and aid be granted, it shall be awarded that he sue to the sovereign in Chancery, and the justices in the Common Pleas shall stay until this writ of procedendo de loquel' come to them. So also on a personal action, New N.B. 154....
Uniformity, Act of
Uniformity, Act of, (English) 14 Car. 2, c. 4, 'for the Uniformity of Public Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies and for establishing the Form of making, ordaining, and consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons of the Church of England' (now partly repealed), received the Royal Assent on May 19, 1662 and came into operation on August 24 (the feast of St. Bartholomew) following (see Lane's Notes on English Church History).After a long preamble setting forth the preparation of the Prayer Book by several Bishops and other Divines appointed by the King, its approval by the two Convocations, and stating that 'nothing more conduceth to the peace of this nation, nor to the honour of our religion and the propagation thereof, than an universal agreement in the public worship of Almighty God.' The Act directs that:All and singular ministers in any cathedral, collegiate or parish church or chapel or other place of public worship within this realm of England, d...
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