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Member of Parliament

of Parliament, abbreviated M.P. See HOUSEOF COMMONS. Lords spiritual and temporal are also a constituent part of Parliament. See HOUSE OF

Bill of Rights

illegal; and the Act declares that the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons 'do claim, demand, and insist upon all and

to works of charity, whether they related to spiritual or temporal concerns) were entitled to peculiar favour, and to be deemed … entitled to peculiar favour, and to be deemed privileged testaments. Lord Thurlow was clearly of opinion that the doctrine of charities

Temporality, or temporals

Temporality, or temporals, secular possessions, as distinguished from ecclesiastical rights; such … others, from time to time, as they are barons and lords of Parliament.

Advowson

particular benefice. An advowson is in the nature of a temporal property and spiritual trust. For the origin and history of … see 19 & 20 Vict. c. 50. By the (English) Lord Chancellor's Augmentation Act, 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 120),

Mortmain

upon alienation to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal, 2 Bl. Com. 268. By several old statutes, alienation of … But either with or without the consent of the immediate lords (for this is doubtful), this forfeiture might be dispensed with

Church

into its actual form, by the Stae; but, that the temporal legislature has recognized and added certain sanctions to the institutions … of the Constitution). 'The establishment of the Churchby law,' says Lord Selborne, 'consists essentially in the incorporation of the law of

Prescription

(Co. Litt. 113 b), Pr'scriptio est titulus ex usu et tempore substantiam capiens ab authoritatelegis. (Prescription is a title taking his

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