Legal Definition and Related Resources of Ordinary

regular , usual , normal, common , often recurring, customary.

In ecclesiastical law. An officer who, has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation. In England, the ordinary is an officer who has immediate jurisdiction in ecclesiastical causes. Co. Litt. 344. In the United States, the ordinary possesses, in those states where such officer exists, powers vested in him by the constitution and acts of the legislature. In South Carolina, the ordinary is a judicial officer. 1 Const. (S. C.) 267; 2 Const. (S. C.) 884.

adjective

• accepted
• accustomary
• accustomed
• average
• banal
• boring
• bourgeois
• bromidic
• characteristic
• colloquial
• commonplace
• communis
• consuetudinary
• conventional
• customary
• daily
• drab
• established
• expected
• familiar
• fixed
• frequent
• general
• generally practiced
• habitual
• hackneyed
• homely
• homespun
• household
• humdrum
• insipid
• known
• mediocre
• middling
• normal
• oftrepeated
• pedestrian
• philistine
• platitudinous
• plebeian
• plentiful
• popular
• prevailing
• prevalent
• prosaic
• prosaical
• quotidianvs
• recognized
• regular
• regulation
• repeated
• representative
• rife
• simple
• stale
• standard
• stereotyped
• stock
• taken for granted
• traditional
• translaticius
• trite
• typical
• unassuming
• undistinguished
• unexceptional
• unexciting
• unimaginative
• unoriginal
• unvaried
• vernacular
• wearisome
• welltrodden
• wellworn
• widespread
• wonted
• workaday
• Associated Concepts: necessary expenses
• ordinary care and skill
• ordinary course of business
• ordinary course of trade
• ordinary duty
• ordinary expenses
• ordinary income
• ordinary loss
• ordinary negligence
• ordinary prudent person
• ordinary reasonable man
• ordinary risk
• ordinary standard of care
• ordinary use
• ordinary wear and tear foreign phrases: Recurrendum est ad extraordinarium quando non valet ordinarium
• ordinary wear and tear foreign phrases: Recurrendum est ad extraordinarium quando non valet ordinarium
• Resort must be made t the extraordinary when the ordinary does not succeed
• widespread
• wonted
• workaday
• Associated Concepts: necessary expenses
• ordinary care and skill
• ordinary course of business
• ordinary course of trade
• ordinary duty
• ordinary expenses
• ordinary income
• ordinary loss
• ordinary meaning
• ordinary negligence
• ordinary prudent person
• ordinary reasonable man
• ordinary risk
• ordinary standard of care
• ordinary use
• ordinary wear and tear foreign phrases: Recurrendum est ad extraordinarium quando non valet ordinarium
• Resort must be made t the extraordinary when the ordinary does not succeed

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Meaning of Ordinary in the Past

An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right and not by deputation.

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In England (see more about this legal system) the ordinary is an officer who has immediate jurisdiction in ecclesiastical causes. Co. Litt. 344.

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In the United States of America, the ordinary possesses, in those states where such officer exists, powers vested in him by the constitution (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.S. encyclopedia) and acts of the legislature, In South Carolina (see more about this State laws here) , the ordinary is a judicial officer. 1 Rep. Const. Ct. 26; 2 Rep. Const. Ct. 384.[1]

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1. Partialy, this information about ordinary is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of terms of the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, including ordinary.

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