Legal Term Dictionary

In ecclesiastical law. The part of a church in which the communion table stands; it belongs to the rector or the Impropriator. 2 Broom & II. Comm. 420.

In ecclesiastical law. The part of a church in which the communion table stands; it belongs to the rector or the Impropriator. 2 Broom & II. Comm. 420. Less...

In American law, this is the name given in some states to the judge (or the presiding judge) of a court of chancery. In England, m besides being the designation of the chief Judge of the court of chancery, the term is used as the title of several judicial officers More...

In American law, this is the name given in some states to the judge (or the presiding judge) of a court of chancery. In England, m besides being the designation of the chief Judge of the court of chancery, the term is used as the title of several judicial officers attached to bishops or other high dignitaries and to the universities. (See infra.) In Scotch practice, it denotes the foreman of an assise or jury. —Chancellor of a cathedral. In English ecclesiastical law. One of the guatuor persona, or four chief dignitaries of the cathedrals of the old foundation. The duties assigned to the office by the statutes of the different chapters vary, but they are chiefly of an educational character, with a special reference to the cultivation of theology.—Chancellor of a diocese. In ecclesiastical law, the officer appointed to assist a bishop in, matters of law, and to hold his consistory courts for him. 1 Bl. Comm. 382 ; 2 Steph. Comm. 672.—Chancellor of a university. In English law. The official head of a university. His principal prerogative is to hold a court with jurisdiction over the members of the university, in which court the vice-chancellor presides. The office is for the most part honorary.—Chancellor of the dnohy of Lancaster. In English law. An officer before whom, or his deputy, the court of the duchy chamber of Lancaster is held. This is a special jurisdiction concerning all manner of equity relating to lands holden of the king in right of the duchy of Lancaster. Hob. 77; 3 Bl. Comm. 78.—Chancellor of the exchequer. In English law. A high officer of the crown, who formerly sat in the exchequer court and, together with the regular judges of the court, saw that things were conducted to the king's benefit In modern times, however, his duties are not of a judicial character, but such as pertain to a minister of state charged with the management of the national revenue and expenditure.—Chancellor of the order of the garter, and other military orders, in England, is an officer who seals the commissions and the mandates of the chapter and assembly of the knights, keeps the register of their proceedings, and delivers their acts under the seal of their order.—Chancellor, the lord high. In England, this is the highest judicial functionary in the kingdom, and superior, in point of precedency, to every temporal lord. He is appointed by the delivery of the king's great seal into his custody. He may not be a Roman Catholic. He is a cabinet minister, a privy counsellor, and prolocutor of the house of lords by prescription, (but not necessarily, though usually, a peer of the realm,) and vacates his office with the ministry by which he was, appointed. To him belongs the appointment of all justices of the peace throughout the kingdom. Being, in the earlier periods of English history, usually an ecclesiastic, (for none else were then capable of an office so conversant In writings.) and presiding over the royal chapel, he became keeper of the sovereign's conscience, visitor, in right of the crown, of the hospitals and colleges of royal foundation, and patron of all the crown livings under the value of twenty marks per annum in the king's books. He is the general guardian of all infants, idiots, and lunatics, and has the general superintendence of all charitable uses, and all this, over and above the vast and extensive jurisdiction which he exercises in his judicial capacity in the supreme court of judicature, of which he is the head. Wharton.— Vice-chancellor. In English law. A judge of the court of chancery, acting as assistant to the lord chancellor, and holding a separate court, from whose judgment an appeal lay to the chancellor. 3 Steph. Comm. 418. Less...

In English law. Courts of local jurisdiction in and for the two universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England.

In English law. Courts of local jurisdiction in and for the two universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England. Less...

Equity; equitable jurisdiction; a court of equity; the system of jurisprudence administered in courts of equity. Kenyon v. Kenyon, 3 Utah, 431, 24 Pac. 82!); Sullivan v. Thomas, 3 Rich. (S. C.) 531. Sec COURT OF CHANCERY.

Equity; equitable jurisdiction; a court of equity; the system of jurisprudence administered in courts of equity. Kenyon v. Kenyon, 3 Utah, 431, 24 Pac. 82!); Sullivan v. Thomas, 3 Rich. (S. C.) 531. Sec COURT OF CHANCERY. Less...

1. An alteration; substitution of one thing for another. This word does not connote either improvement or deterioration as a result In this respect it differs from amendment, which, in law, always imports a change for the better. 2. Exchange of money against money of a different denomination. Also small More...

1. An alteration; substitution of one thing for another. This word does not connote either improvement or deterioration as a result In this respect it differs from amendment, which, in law, always imports a change for the better. 2. Exchange of money against money of a different denomination. Also small coin. Also an abbreviation of exchange. —Change of venae. Properly speaking, the removal of a suit begun in one county or district to another county or district for trial, though the term is also sometimes applied to the removal of a suit from one court to another court of the same county or district Dudley v. Power Co., 130 Ala. 453, 36 South. 700; Felts v. Railroad Co., 105 ?a. 21. 4Q Atl. 403; State v. Wofford, 119 Mo. 375, 24 S. W. 764. Less...

An officer formerly belonging to the king's mint in England, whose business was chiefly to exchange coin for bullion brought in by merchants and others.

An officer formerly belonging to the king's mint in England, whose business was chiefly to exchange coin for bullion brought in by merchants and others. Less...

This term refers rather to the bed in which the main stream of a river flows than to the deep water of the stream as followed In navigation. Bridge Co. v. Dubuque County, 55 Iowa, 558, 8 N. W. 448. See The Oliver (D. C.) 22 Fed. 849; Iowa v. More...

This term refers rather to the bed in which the main stream of a river flows than to the deep water of the stream as followed In navigation. Bridge Co. v. Dubuque County, 55 Iowa, 558, 8 N. W. 448. See The Oliver (D. C.) 22 Fed. 849; Iowa v. Illinois, 147 TJ. S. 1, 13 Sup. Ct 239, 37 L. Ed. 55; CessiU v. State, 40 Ark. 504. The "main channel" of a river is that bed of the river over which the principal volume of water flows. Many great rivers discharge themselves into the sea through more than one channel. They all, however, have a main channel, through which the principal volume of water passes. Packet Oo. v. Bridge Co. (C. C.) 31 Fed. Rep. 757. —Natnral channel. The channel of a stream as determined by the natural conformation of the country through which it flows; that is, the hed over which the waters of the stream flow when not in any manner diverted or interfered with by man. See Larrabee v. Cloverdale, 131 Cal. 96, 63 Pac. 143. Less...

The chief singer in the choir of a cathedral. Mentioned in 13 Eliz. c 10.

The chief singer in the choir of a cathedral. Mentioned in 13 Eliz. c 10. Less...

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...