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Abdication
Abdication, where a magistrate or person in office voluntarily renounces or gives it up. It differs from resignation, in that resignation is made by one who has received his office from another and restores it into
Voluntarily given up his membership
person may voluntarily give up his membership of a political party even though he has not tendered his resignation from the membership of that party. Even in the absence of a formal resignation from membership an inference
Dean
for the re-arrangement of the boundaries of archdeaconries and rural deaneries, and by the (English) Deans and Canons Resignation Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 8), for the resignation of Deans. See also (English) Cathedrals (Houses
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Writing under his hand
Writing under his hand, a type written letter of resignation duly signed by the person tendering his resignation also means 'writing under his hand', Vice-chairman, Village Panchayat, Maranbeed
Simony
to the Benefices Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 48), which declaration, however, contains a saving for Resignation Bonds (see RESIGNATION). The unlawful practice of giving or receiving money or gifts in exchange for spiritual promotion,
Incumbent
Incumbent, a clergyman in possession of as ecclesiastical benefice. As to resignation with pen-sion, see the Incumbents Resignation Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 44); and the Clergy Pensions
Cabinet
and he has to be prepared to take up the responsibility of forming a government if the government resigns or is defeated. His task though not so difficult as that of the Prime Minister is of sufficiently
Bishop
chancellor who holds his Court and assists him in matters of ecclesiastical law, and vicar-general. As to the resignation of archbishops and bishops when incapacitated by age or other infirmities, and appointment of bishop co-adjuctor where bishop
Droits of admiralty
England (or Lord High Admiral). Prince George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne and Lord High Admiral, resigned the rights to these droits to the Crown for a salary, as Lord High Admiral, of 7,000l. a
Chief Justice of England
'Levies of the Chief Justices of England' down to that of Lord Mansfield (who was appointed in 1756, resigned in 1788, and died in 1793) was brought out by Lord Campbell in 1849.
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