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Sacrament

Sacrament. In the Church of England there are two sacraments only--Baptism and the Supper of the Lord; Confirmation, Penance, Orders, Matrimony, and Extreme Unction are not recognized as sacraments (Art. XXV.). the term 'Sacrament' is commonly used to mean the Holy Communion. Reviling the Sacrament is punishable by fine and imprisonment (1 Edw. 6, c. 1), and administration of the Sacrament in both kinds is enjoined by s. 7 of the same Act, 'excepte necessitie otherwise re-quire,' and the same s. enacts that 'the minister shall not without lawful cause deny the same.' In the Roman Catholic Church the cup is not administered to the laity.For a clergyman to refuse without lawful cause to administer the sacrament to a parishioner is an offence against the laws ecclesiastical, for which he may be proceeded against under the Church Discipline Act [Jenkins v. Cook, (1876) 1 PD 80]. The Holy Communion cannot be refused to a person because he has married his deceased wife's sister, Thompson v. ...


Sacramental

Of or pertaining to a sacrament or the sacraments of the nature of a sacrament sacredly or solemnly binding as sacramental rites or elements...


Sacramentalism

The doctrine and use of sacraments attachment of excessive importance to sacraments...


Sacramentally

In a sacramental manner...


Sacramentize

To administer the sacraments...


Sacramentary

Of or pertaining to a sacrament or the sacraments sacramental...


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the Form of making, ordaining, and consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons of the Church of England' (now partly repealed), received the Royal Assent on May 19, 1662 and came into operation on August 24 (the feast of St. Bartholomew) following (see Lane's Notes on English Church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...


Corporation Act (English)

Corporation Act (English), 13 Car. 2, s. 2, c. 1, by which no person could thereafter be elected to office in any corporate town who should not within one year previously have taken the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the rites of the Church of England.-An obligation to subscribe a declaration was substituted for the necessity of taking the Sacrament by 9 Geo. 4, c. 17,and the Corporation Act itself, with a body of similar Acts, was repealed by 34 & 35 Vict. c. 48....


Deacon

Deacon [fr. diacre, Fr.; diacono, It., Span., and Port.; diaconus, Lat.; Gk.] (1) A minister or servant of the church, whose office is to assist the priest in divine service, and the distribution of the sacrament, etc. He may now perform any of the divine offices which a priest may, except only pronouncing the absolution and consecrating the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. By the Clergy Ordination Act, 1804 (44 Geo. 3, c. 43), it is provided (conformably to Canon 34 of the Canons of 1603) that none shall be ordained deacon under twenty-three years, nor priest under twenty-four years of age; though as to deacons the Archbishop of Canterbury has the Privilege of admitting them (by faculty or dispensation) at an earlier age. See, further, under the title CLERGY; and see Phill. Eccl. Law.(2) A lay office among dissenters....


Reservation

Reservation, a keeping aside or providing. See SACRAMENT. Reservation of the Sacrament is an offence punishable by deprivation, Oxrofd (Bishop) v. Henly, 1909 P. 319.As to a reservation in a conveyance and how it differs from an exception, see title EXCEPTION.Reservation is not a constitutional compulsion but is discretionary according to the ruling of this Court in Rajendran's case. State of Kerala v. N.M. Thomas, AIR 1976 SC 490: (1976) 2 SCC 310: (1976) 1 SCR 906.'Reservation' was something different from the 'selection' of permissible area. The two terms were not only not synonymous but were mutually exclusive. 'Selection' of permissible area was allowed only to a landlord who had not exercised his right of 'reservation', Lajpat Rai v. State of Punjab, AIR 1981 SC 1401: (1981) 3 SCC 94: (1981) 3 SCR 590.The creation of a new right or interest, by and for the grantor, in real property being granted to another, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1309.Mans the reservation of post in...


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