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The ceremonial observed by one of the Masonic systems called in full the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite also the system itself which confers thirty three degrees of which the first three are nearly identical with those of the York rite...
Omnia pr'sumuntur solemniter [or rite] esse acta
Omnia pr'sumuntur solemniter [or rite] esse acta. Co. Litt. 6, (All things are presumed to have been done rightly.) Similarly, Omnia pr'sumuntur rite et solemniter esse acta donec probetur incontrarium. Co. Litt. 232, (All things are presumed to have been rightly and duly performed until it is proved to the contrary.) See also AIR 1930 Cal 228....
Rite
The act of performing divine or solemn service as established by law precept or custom a formal act of religion or other solemn duty a solemn observance a ceremony as the rites of freemasonry...
Gael
A Celt or the Celts of the Scotch Highlands or of Ireland now esp a Scotch Highlander of Celtic origin...
Scots
Of or pertaining to the Scotch Scotch Scottish as Scots law a pound Scots 1s 8d...
House of Commons
House of Commons, one of the constituent parts of Parliament, being the assembly of knights of shires, or the representatives of counties; citizens, or the representatives of cities; and burgesses, or the representatives of boroughs.The lowest chamber of British and Canadian Parlia-ment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 744.Property Qualification.--The property qualification of members, which was by 1 & 2 Vict. c. 48, amending 9 Anne, c. 5, by allowing personal property to count fixed at 600l. a year for a county, and 300l. a year for a borough member, was abolished in 1858 by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 26.Payment of Members.--Members were from very early times entitled to payment at the rate of 4s. a day for county, and 2s. a day for borough members, payable by their constituents. This has never been abolished, and is recognized by the unrepeated 6 Hen. 8, c. 16, by which members may not depart from Parliament without licence from the Speaker on pain of losing their 'wages,' though 35 Hen. ...
Ceremonial
Relating to ceremony or external rite ritual according to the forms of established rites...
Ghost dance
A religious dance of the North American Indians participated in by both sexes and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is through trance and vision to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost dance or Messiah religion which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka the Indian Messiah who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race the dead with the living should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth The religion inculcates peace righteousness and work and holds that in good time without warlike intervention the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States only in the case of the Sioux owing to local causes leading to an outbreak...
Ritually
By rites or by a particular rite...
Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874
Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874 (English) (37 & 38 Vict. c. 85). By this Act'which proceeds on the preamble that it is expedient that in certain cases further regulations should be made for the administration of the laws relating to the performance of divine service according to the use of the Church of England'it was provided that whensoever a vacancy should occur in the office of official principal of the Arches Court of Canterbury (see ARCHES COURT), the judge appointed under that Act should become ex officio such official principal, and all proceedings thereafter taken before the judge in relation to mattes arising within the province of Canterbury should be deemed to be taken in the Arches Court of Canterbury. The Court may be set in motion on representation by one archdeacon, or churchwarden, or any three parishioners declaring themselves to be members of the Church of England: (1) that in any church any alteration in or addition to the fabric, ornaments, or furniture thereof...
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