Tag: Church Law

  • Minister

    Minister in Law Enforcement Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of minister. Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Minister (You may find minister at the world legal encyclopedia and the […]

  • Minister

    Minister in Law Enforcement Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of minister. Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Minister (You may find minister at the world legal encyclopedia and the […]

  • Bull

    A letter from the pope of Rome, written on parchment, to which is attached a leaden seal impressed with the images of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. There are three kinds of apostolical rescripts, the brief, the signature, and the […]

  • Devolution

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Devolution Meaning of Devolution transmission of an interest in property from one person to another by operation of law, particularly on the death of the former person. <div […]

  • Presentee

    In ecclesiastical law. A clerk who has been presented by his patron to a bishop in order to be instituted in a church. …

  • Presentee

    In ecclesiastical law. A clerk who has been presented by his patron to a bishop in order to be instituted in a church. …

  • 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 […]

  • Consistory

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Consistory Meaning of Consistory In ecclesiastical law. An assembly of cardinals convoked by the pope. The consistory is either public or secret. It is public when the pope receives princes or gives […]

  • Glebe

    In Ecclesiastical Law. The land which belongs to a church. It is the dowry of the church. Gleba est terra qua consistit dos ecclesiae. 9 Cranch (U. S.) 329. In Civil Law. The soil of an inheritance. There were serfs of the glebe, called glebae addicti. Code, 11. 47. 7. 21; Nov, 54, c. […]

  • Glebe

    In Ecclesiastical Law. The land which belongs to a church. It is the dowry of the church. Gleba est terra qua consistit dos ecclesiae. 9 Cranch (U. S.) 329. In Civil Law. The soil of an inheritance. There were serfs of the glebe, called glebae addicti. Code, 11. 47. 7. 21; Nov, 54, c. […]

  • Ordinary

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

  • Decretals

    In ecclesiastical law. Canonical epistles, written by the pope alone, or by the pope and cardinals at the instance or suit of one or more persons, -for the ordering and determining some matter in controversy, and which have the authority of a law in themselves. The decretals were […]

  • Decretals

    In ecclesiastical law. Canonical epistles, written by the pope alone, or by the pope and cardinals at the instance or suit of one or more persons, -for the ordering and determining some matter in controversy, and which have the authority of a law in themselves. The decretals were […]

  • Peculiar

    While the word sometimes has an offensive meaning, its natural and usual meaning is particular or special. St. Louis M.& S.E.R. Co. v Continental Brick Co., 96 S. W. 1011, 198 Mo. 698.