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Cameronians, an extreme sect of the Presbyterian party in Scotland. They disowned altogether the King's authority and that of the Government, and renounced the title of all pretenders to the throne who would not subscribe to the Solemn League and Covenant and govern according to its principles. These doctrines were chiefly enforced by two preachers named Cargill and Cameron, from the latter of whom the name was derived....
Presbyterianism
That form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power and admits no prelates over them also the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches taken collectively...
Presbyterial
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Panpresbyterian
Belonging to or representative of those who hold Presbyterian views in all parts of the world as a Panpresbyterian council...
Consistorian
Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy...
Dissenters
Dissenters, Protestant seceders from the Established Church. They are of many denominations, principally Presbyterians, Independents or Congregationalists, Methodists, and Baptists; but as to Church government the Baptists are Independents.The penal laws, for the enforcement of legal uniformity, have been abrogated. The (English) Toleration Act, 1 W. & M. st. 1, c. 18, extended to Unitarians by 53 Geo. 3, c. 160, first allowed dissenters to assemble for religious worship according to their own forms in places of meeting duly certified; as to such places, see now 18 & 19 Vict. c. 81, and 19 & 20 Vict. c. 119, ss. 17, 27. The (English) Dissenters Chapels Act, 1844 (see that title), provided for meeting-houses; and the (English) Trustees Appointment Act, 1850 (13 & 14 Vict. c. 28), commonly called (English) Peto's Act, amended by the (English) Trustees Appointment Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 19), provides for facilities in regard to the appointment of trustees andthe title to lands purcha...
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...
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