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  • CLERICAL
    Pertaining to clergymen; or pertaining to the office or labor of a clerk. —Clerical error. A mistake in writing or copying; the mistake of a clerk or writer. 1 LA. rCaym. 183.—Clerical tonsure. The having the head shaven, which was formerly peculiar to clerks, or persons in orders, and which More...
  • CLERICALE PRIVILEGIUM
    In old English law. The clerical privilege; the privilege or benefit of clergy.
  • CLERICI DE CANCELLARIA
    Clerks of the chancery. Glerici non ponantur in offioiis. Co. Litt 96. Clergymen should not be placed In offices; i. e.f In secular offices. See Lofft 308.
  • CLERICI PRAENOTARII
    The six clerks In chancery. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 251.
  • CLERICO ADMITTENDO
    See ADMITTENDO CLERICO.
  • CLERICO CAPTO PER STATUTUM MERCATORUM
    A writ for the delivery of a clerk out of prison, who was taken and Incarcerated upon the breach of a statute merchant Reg. Orig. 147.
  • CLERICO CONVICTO COMMISSO GAOLAE IN DEFECTU ORDINARII DELIBERANDO
    An ancient writ that lay for the delivery to his ordinary of a clerk convicted of felony, where the ordinary did not challenge him according to the privilege of clerks. Reg. Orig:. 69.
  • CLERICO INFRA SACROS ORDINES CONSTITUTO, NON ELIGENDO IN OFFICIUM
    A writ directed to those who had thrust a bailiwick or other office upon one in holy orders, charging them to release "him. Reg. Orig. 143.
  • CLERICUS
    In Roman law. A minister of religion in the Christian church; an ecclesiastic or priest Cod. 1, 3; Nov. 3, 123, 187. A general term, Including bishops, priests, deacons, and others of inferior order. Brissonius. In old English law. A clerk or priest; a person in holy orders; a secular More...
  • CLERIGOS
    In Spanish law. Clergy; men chosen for the service of God. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 5, ch. 4.
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