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Secular clergy

Secular clergy, parochial clergy who performed their ministry in seculo, and were contradistingui-shed from the regular clergy, who lived

Secular State

Secular State, means non-religious and not irreligi-ous State, AIR 1986 Mad 83 (86). (Constitution of India, Art. 15)

Service, Secular

Service, Secular, worldly service, as contrasted with spiritual or ecclesiastical.

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Lay impropriators

were dissolved and given to the Crown. From these two roots have sprung all the lay impropriations or secular parsonages, they having been afterwards granted out from time to time by the Crown to laymen. See APPROPRIATION

Education

later 'local education authorities' (i.e., county and borough councils) were substituted for school boards with power to control secular education in non-provided schools (El. Ed. Act, 1902). The El. Ed. Act, 1918, made provision for the establishment

Ely

franchise, which, however, by 6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 87, was taken away from the bishop, whose secular authority is now vested in the Crown.

H'retico comburendo, De

it, and afterwards fell into the same again, or some other, and was thereupon delivered over to the secular power in order that he might be burnt to death.-See Fitz. N.B. 269; Lely's Church of England Position,

Koran, or Alcoran

Koran, or Alcoran, the Mohammedan book of faith. It contains both ecclesiastical and secular laws. Consult Gibbon's Dec. and Fall, ch 1.

Temporality, or temporals

Temporality, or temporals, secular possessions, as distinguished from ecclesiastical rights; such re-venues, lands, and tenements as archbishops and bishops have had annexed

Math

the religious or spiritual head of the particular cult or religious fraternity, and of the manager of the secular properties of the institution of the math, Shri Krishna Singh v. Mathura Ahir, AIR 1980 SC 707 (713):

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