Tonsura, Tonsure

Concept of “Tonsura, Tonsure”

Traditional meaning of tonsura, tonsure in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) The shaving of the crown of the head; see 4th Book (“Of Public Wrongs”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 367.

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1. Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Tonsura, Tonsure”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.

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