Legal Term Dictionary

The ruler of a church.

The ruler of a church. Less...

n. A clergyman; a priest; a man consecrated to the service of the church.

n. A clergyman; a priest; a man consecrated to the service of the church. Less...

Something belonging to or set apart for the church, as distinguished from "civil" or "secular," with regard to the world. Wharton. -Ecclesiastical authorities. In England, the clergy, under the sovereign, as temporal head oof tbe church, set apart from the rest of the people or laity, in order to superintend More...

Something belonging to or set apart for the church, as distinguished from "civil" or "secular," with regard to the world. Wharton. -Ecclesiastical authorities. In England, the clergy, under the sovereign, as temporal head oof tbe church, set apart from the rest of the people or laity, in order to superintend the public worship of God and the other ceremonies of religion, and to administer spiritual counsel and instruction. The several orders of the clergy are: (1) Archbishops and bishops; (2) deans and chapters* (3)'archdeacons; (4) rural deans; <6) parsons (under whom are included appro-priators) ana vicars; (6) curates. Churchwardens or sidesmen, and parish clerks and sextons, inasmuch as their duties are connected with the church, may be considered to be a species of ecclesiastical authorities. Wharton. -Ecclesiastical commissioners. In English law. A body corporate, erected by St 6 A 7 Wm. IV, c. 77, empowered to suggest measures conducive to the efficiency of the established church, to be. ratified by orders in council. Wharton. See 8 Steph. Comm. 156, 157.-Ecclesiastical corporation. See COBPOBATION. -Ecclesiastical council. In New England. A church court or tribunal, having functions partly Judicial and partly advisory, appointed to determine questions relating to church discipline, orthodoxy, standing of ministers, controversies between ministers and their churches, differences and divisions in churches, and the like. Stearns v. First Parish, 21 Pick. (Mass.) 124; Sheldon v. Congregational Parish, 24 Pick. (MassJ 281.-Ecclesiastical courts. A system of courts in England, held by authority of the sovereign, and having jurisdiction over matters pertaining to the religion and ritual of the established church, and the rights, duties, and discipline of ecclesiastical persons as such. They are as follows: The archdeacon's court consistory court, court of arches, court of peculiars, prerogative court, court of delegates, court of convocation, court of audience, court of faculties, and court of commissioners of review. See those several titles; and aee 3 Bl. Comm. 64-68. Equitable Life Aaaur. Soc. v. Pa tenon, 41 Ga. 364, 5 Am. Rep. 535.-Ecclesiastical division of England. This is a division into provinces, dioceses, archdeaconries, rural deaneries, and parishes.-Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. Jurisdiction over ecclesiastical cases and controversies; such as appertains to the ecclesiastical courts. Short v. Btotts, 58 Ind. 35.-Ecclesiastical law. The body of jurisprudence administered by the ecclesiastical courts of England; derived, in large measure,' from the canon and civil law. As now restricted, it applies mainly to the affairs, and the doctrine, discipline, and worship, of the established church. De Witt v. De Witt, 67 Ohio St. 340. 66 N. E. 136.-Ecclesiastical things. This term, as used in the canon law, includes church buildings, church property, cemeteries, and property given to the church for the support of the poor or for any other pious use. Smith v. Bonhoof. 2 Mich. 115. Less...

The attorney, proctor, or advocate of a corporation. Episcoporum ecdici; bishops' proctors; church lawyers. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 65.

The attorney, proctor, or advocate of a corporation. Episcoporum ecdici; bishops' proctors; church lawyers. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 65. Less...

In French law. One of the two parts or pieces of a wooden tally. That in possession of tbe debtor is properly called the "tally," the other "echantillon." Poth, Obi. pt 4, c. 1, art 2, s 8.

In French law. One of the two parts or pieces of a wooden tally. That in possession of tbe debtor is properly called the "tally," the other "echantillon." Poth, Obi. pt 4, c. 1, art 2, s 8. Less...

In French law. A municipal officer corresponding with alderman or burgess, and having in some instances a civil jurisdiction in certain causes of trifling importance.

In French law. A municipal officer corresponding with alderman or burgess, and having in some instances a civil jurisdiction in certain causes of trifling importance. Less...

In medical Jurisprudence. The constant and senseless repetition of particular words or phrases, recognized as a sign or symptom of insanity or of aphasia.

In medical Jurisprudence. The constant and senseless repetition of particular words or phrases, recognized as a sign or symptom of insanity or of aphasia. Less...

In French marine law. Stranding. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 12, s. 13, no. L

In French marine law. Stranding. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 12, s. 13, no. L Less...

In medical jurisprudence. Puerperal convulsions; a convulsive seizure which sometimes suddenly attacks a woman in labor or directly after, generally attended by unconscious-and occasionally by mental aberration.

In medical jurisprudence. Puerperal convulsions; a convulsive seizure which sometimes suddenly attacks a woman in labor or directly after, generally attended by unconscious-and occasionally by mental aberration. Less...

In medicine. That system followed by physicians who select their modes of practice and medicines from various schools. Webster. "Without professing to understand much of medical phraseology, we suppose that the terms 'allopathic practice and legitimate business* mean the ordinary method commonly adopted by the great body of learned and More...

In medicine. That system followed by physicians who select their modes of practice and medicines from various schools. Webster. "Without professing to understand much of medical phraseology, we suppose that the terms 'allopathic practice and legitimate business* mean the ordinary method commonly adopted by the great body of learned and eminent physicians, which is taught in their institutions, established by their highest authorities, and accepted by the larger and more respectable portion of tne community. By 'eclectic practice,' without imputing to it as the counsel for the plaintiff seem inclined to, an odor of illegality, we presume is intended another and different syatem, unusual and eccentric, not countenanced by the classes before referred to, but characterised by them as spurious and denounced as dangerous. It is sufficient to say that the two modes of treating human maladies are essentially distinct, and baaed upon different views of the nature and causes of diseases, their appropriate remedies, and the modes of applying them." Bradbury v. Bardin, 34 Conn. 453. Less...