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  • Holiday

    A day of cessation from labor; a day when public business is suspended; a nonjudicial day. Primarily the term meant a holy day, or religious festival. In modern usage it indicates a secular day on which, by stat ute, public business is suspended. It does not appropriately […]

  • Clergy

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Clergy Meaning of Clergy The body of clergymen or ministers as opposed to laity . Clergy Alternative Definition The name applicable to ecclesiastical […]

  • Civil War

    Civil War

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Civil war Meaning of Civil war An internecine war in which the opposing forces both belong to the same country or nation, e. g. the Revolutionary War prior to the Declaration of Independence, or the late […]

  • Advowson

    A right of presentation to a church or benefice. He who possesses this right is called the patron or advocate. When there is no patron, or he neglects to exercise his right within six months, it is called a lapse, and a title is given to the ordinary to […]

  • Advowson

    A right of presentation to a church or benefice. He who possesses this right is called the patron or advocate. When there is no patron, or he neglects to exercise his right within six months, it is called a lapse, and a title is given to the ordinary to […]

  • Canon

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Canon Meaning of Canon A dignitary of the English church other than a Dean. A rule of law or a rule of discipline, particularly ecclesiastical . A rule of law contained in deeretum gratiani compiled by […]

  • Salutem

    (Lat.) Health; greeting; prosperity; salvation. An expression of salutation used by the Romans in the commencement of their letters or epistles, generally abbreviated. S. C. Plinius Comelio Tadto suo, S. Plin. Ep. i. 6 et passim. In legal instruments, it was written at length, […]

  • Salutem

    (Lat.) Health; greeting; prosperity; salvation. An expression of salutation used by the Romans in the commencement of their letters or epistles, generally abbreviated. S. C. Plinius Comelio Tadto suo, S. Plin. Ep. i. 6 et passim. In legal instruments, it was written at length, […]

  • Doctrine

    A rule or principle of law developed as contained in decisions of the courts.

  • Doctrine

    A rule or principle of law developed as contained in decisions of the courts.

  • Society

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Society Meaning of Society See Club. Society Alternative Definition In its abstract sense (used with no article prefixed), the public at large; the […]

  • Oath

    A pledge or promise by which a person swears that a statement made or about to be made is true.

  • Apostata capiendo

    An obsolete English writ which issued against an apostate, or one who had violated the rules of his religious order. It was addressed to the sheriff, and commanded him to deliver the defendant into the custody of the abbot or prior. Reg. Orig. 71, 267; Jacob; Wharton. …

  • Ecclesia

    (Lat. an assembly). A Christian assembly; a church; a place of religious worship. Spelman. …

  • Quale Jus

    (Lat.) In old English law. A judicial writ, which lay where a man of religion had judgment to recover land before execution was made of the judgment. It went forth to the escheator between judgment and execution, to inquire what right the religious person had to recover, or whether the judgment […]