Visitation - Law Dictionary Search Results
Dieu et son acte
Dieu et son acte (the visitation of God), words often used in ourlaw. It is a maxim that the act of God, or inevitable
Donative
and ordained that it should be merely in the gift or disposal of the patron; subject to his visitation only, and not to that of the ordinary; and vested absolutely in the clerk of the patron's deed
Synodal
tribute or payment in money paid to the bishop or archdeacon by the inferior clergy at the Easter visitation, 25 Hen. 8, c. 10.
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Proxies
Proxies, annual payments by the parochial clergy to the bishop, etc., on visitation.
Metals, dealers in old
Dealers Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c.110), relating to their trade requiring registration, and giving powers of visitation and search to the police; s. 13 of the (English) Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871 (34 & 35
Hospitium
Hospitium, procreation or visitation-money. An mm; a household, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 742.
Corporation or body politic
law. The duty of a corporation is to answer the ends of its institution-to enforce which it maybe visited: if spiritual, by the ordinary; if lay, by the founder or his representatives; viz., the civil by the
Heresy
cases of heresy as it stood at Common Law; that is, it left the simple offence to be visited by spiritual punishment in the Ecclesiastical Courts, which courts have long since ceased to exercise jurisdiction over laymen.
Eleemosynary corporations
ecclesiastical persons; and, accordingly, they are not subject to the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts, or to the visitations of the ordinary or diocesan in their spiritual charac-ters, 3 Steph. Com.
Dane-lage
which was principally maintained in the Midland counties and the eastern coats (the parts most exposed to the visits of that piratical people) while the Danes had sway in this country, 1 Bl. Com. 65.
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