Legal Term Dictionary

A church or chapel endowed with lands for the maintenance of priests to say mass daily for the souls of the donors. Termes de la Ley; Cowell.

A church or chapel endowed with lands for the maintenance of priests to say mass daily for the souls of the donors. Termes de la Ley; Cowell. Less...

A place of worship; a lesser or inferior church, sometimes a part of or subordinate to another church. Webster. Rex v. Nixon, 7 Car. & P. 442. —Chapel of ease. In English ecclesiastical law. A chapel founded in general at some period later than the parochial church itself, and designed More...

A place of worship; a lesser or inferior church, sometimes a part of or subordinate to another church. Webster. Rex v. Nixon, 7 Car. & P. 442. —Chapel of ease. In English ecclesiastical law. A chapel founded in general at some period later than the parochial church itself, and designed for the accommodation of such of the parishioners as, in course of time, had begun to fix their residence at some distance from its site: and so termed because built in aid of the original church. 3 Steph. Comm. 151.—Private chapel. Chapels owned by private persons, and used by themselves and their families, are called "private." as opposed to chapels of ease, which are built for the accommodation of particular districts within a parish, in ease of the original parish church. 2 Steph. Comm. 745.— Proprietary chapels. In English law. Those belonging to private persons who have purchased or erected them with a view to profit or otherwise.—PuMic chapels. In English law, are chapels founded at some period later than the church itself. They were designed for the accommodation of such of the parishioners as In course of time had begun to fix their residence at a distance from its site; and chapels so circumstanced were described as "chapels of ease," because built in aid of the original church. 8 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 745. Less...

The precinct and limits of a chapel. The same thing to a chapel as a parish is to a church. Cowell; Blount.

The precinct and limits of a chapel. The same thing to a chapel as a parish is to a church. Cowell; Blount. Less...

A hood or bonnet anciently worn by the Knights of the Garter, as part of the habit of that order; also a little escutcheon fixed in the forehead of horses drawing a hearse at a funeral. Wharton.

A hood or bonnet anciently worn by the Knights of the Garter, as part of the habit of that order; also a little escutcheon fixed in the forehead of horses drawing a hearse at a funeral. Wharton. Less...

A summary of matters to be Inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, justices of assise, or of the peace, in their sessions. Also articles delivered by the justice in his charge to the inquest Brit c. iii.

A summary of matters to be Inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, justices of assise, or of the peace, in their sessions. Also articles delivered by the justice in his charge to the inquest Brit c. iii. Less...

An ecclesiastic who performs divine service in a chapel; but it more commonly means one who attends upon a king, prince, or other person of quality, for the performance of clerical duties In a private chapel. 4 Coke, 90. A clergyman officially attached to a ship of war, to an More...

An ecclesiastic who performs divine service in a chapel; but it more commonly means one who attends upon a king, prince, or other person of quality, for the performance of clerical duties In a private chapel. 4 Coke, 90. A clergyman officially attached to a ship of war, to an army, (or regiment) or to some public institution, for the purpose of performing divine service. Webster. Less...

An itinerant vendor of small wares. A trader who trades from place to place. Say. 191, 192.

An itinerant vendor of small wares. A trader who trades from place to place. Say. 191, 192. Less...

In ecclesiastical law. A congregation of ecclesiastical persons in a cathedral church, consisting of canons, or* prebendaries, whereof the dean is the head, all subordinate to the bishop, to whom they act as assistants In matters relating to the church, for the better ordering and disposing the things thereof, and More...

In ecclesiastical law. A congregation of ecclesiastical persons in a cathedral church, consisting of canons, or* prebendaries, whereof the dean is the head, all subordinate to the bishop, to whom they act as assistants In matters relating to the church, for the better ordering and disposing the things thereof, and the confirmation of such leases of the temporalty and offices relating to the bishopric, as the bishop shall make from time to time. And they are termed "capitulum," as a kind of head, instituted not only to assist the bishop in manner aforesaid, but also anciently to rule and govern the diocese in the time of vacation. Burn, Diet Less...

The aggregate of the moral qualities which belong to and distinguish an individual person; the general result of the one's distinguishing attributes. That moral predisposition or habit or aggregate of ethical qualities, which is believed to attach to a person, on the strength of the common opinion and report concerning More...

The aggregate of the moral qualities which belong to and distinguish an individual person; the general result of the one's distinguishing attributes. That moral predisposition or habit or aggregate of ethical qualities, which is believed to attach to a person, on the strength of the common opinion and report concerning him. The opinion generally entertained of a per- son derived from the common report of the people who are acquainted with him. Smith v. State, 88 Ala. 73, 7 South. 52; State v. Turner, 36 S. C. 534,15 S. E. 602; Fahnestock v. State, 23 Ind. 238; State v. Parker, 96 Mo. 382, 9 S. W. 728; Sullivan v. State, 66 Ala. 48; Kimmel v. Kimmel, 8 Serg. A R. (Pa.) 337, 8 Am. Dec. 672. Character and reputation are not synonymous terms. Character is what a man or woman is morally, while reputation is what he or she is reputed to be. let reputation is tbe estimate which the community has of a person's character; and it is the belief that moral character is wanting in an individual that renders him unworthy of belief; that is to say, that reputation is evidence of character, and if the reputation is bad for truth, or reputation is bad in other respects affecting the moral character, then the jury may infer that the character is bad and the witness not reliable. General character has always been proved by proving general reputation. Leverich v. Frank, 6 Or. 213. The word "character" no doubt has an objective and subjective Import, which are quite distinct. As to the object, character is its quality. As to man, it is the quality of his mind, and his affections, his capacity and temperament. But as a subjective term, certainly in the minds of others, one's character is the aggregate, or the abstract of other men's opinions of one. And in this sense when a witness speaks of the character of another witness for truth, he draws not upon his memory alone, bujt his judgment also. It is the conclusion of the , mind of the witness, in summing up the amount of all the reports he has heard of the man, and declaring his character for truth, as held in the minds of his neighbors and acquaintances, and in this sense character, general character, and general report or reputation are the same, as held in the books. Powers v. Leach, 26 Vt. 278. Less...

v. To impose a burden, obligation, or Hen; to create a claim against property; to claim, to demand; to accuse; to instruct a jury on matters of law. In the first sense above given, a jury In a criminal case is "charged" with the duty of trying the prisoner (or, More...

v. To impose a burden, obligation, or Hen; to create a claim against property; to claim, to demand; to accuse; to instruct a jury on matters of law. In the first sense above given, a jury In a criminal case is "charged" with the duty of trying the prisoner (or, as otherwise expressed, with his fate or his "deliverance") as soon as they are impaneled and sworn, and at this moment the prisoner's legal "jeopardy" begins. This is altogether a different matter from "charging" the jury in the sense of giving them instructions on matters of law, which is a function of the court Tom-aason v. State, 112 Tenn. 596, 79 S. W. 803. Less...