Legal Term Dictionary

In old English law. A cancelling. Bract 398b.

In old English law. A cancelling. Bract 398b. Less...

The rails or lattice work or balusters inclosing the bar of a court of justice or the communion table. Also the lines drawn on the face of a will or other writing, with the intention of revoking or annulling it. See CANCEL.

The rails or lattice work or balusters inclosing the bar of a court of justice or the communion table. Also the lines drawn on the face of a will or other writing, with the intention of revoking or annulling it. See CANCEL. Less...

A person who offers himself, or is presented by others, to be elected to an office. Derived from the Latin Candidas, (white,) because in Rome it was tbe custom for those who sought office to clothe themselves in white garments. One who seeks or aspires to some office or privilege, More...

A person who offers himself, or is presented by others, to be elected to an office. Derived from the Latin Candidas, (white,) because in Rome it was tbe custom for those who sought office to clothe themselves in white garments. One who seeks or aspires to some office or privilege, or who offers himself for the same. A man is a candidate for an office when he is seeking such office. It is not necessary that he should have been nominated for the office. Leonard v. Com., 112 Pa. 624, 4 Atl. 224. See State v. Hirsch, 125 Ind. 207, 24 N. E. 1062, 9 L. R. A. 170. Less...

In English law. A festival appointed by the church to be observed on the second day of February in every year, in honor of the purification of the Virgin Mary, being forty days after her miraculous delivery. At this festival, formerly, the Protestants went, and the Papists now go, in More...

In English law. A festival appointed by the church to be observed on the second day of February in every year, in honor of the purification of the Virgin Mary, being forty days after her miraculous delivery. At this festival, formerly, the Protestants went, and the Papists now go, in procession with lighted candles; they also consecrate candles on this day for the service of the ensuing year. It is the fourth of the four cross quarter-days of the year. Wharton. Less...

In old records. A trial by hot iron, formerly used in England. Whishaw.

In old records. A trial by hot iron, formerly used in England. Whishaw. Less...

1. A law, rule, or ordinance in general, and of the church in particular. An ecclesiastical law or statute. —Canon law. A body of ecclesiastical jurisprudence which, in countries where the Roman Catholic church is established, is composed of maxims and rules drawn from patristic sources, ordinances and decrees of More...

1. A law, rule, or ordinance in general, and of the church in particular. An ecclesiastical law or statute. —Canon law. A body of ecclesiastical jurisprudence which, in countries where the Roman Catholic church is established, is composed of maxims and rules drawn from patristic sources, ordinances and decrees of general councils, and the decretals and bulls of the popes. In England, according to Blackstone, there is a kind of national canon law, composed of legatine and provincial constitutions enacted in England prior to the reformation, and adapted to the exigencies of the English church and kingdom. 1 Bl. Comm. 82. The canon law consists partly of certain rules taken out of the Scripture, partly of tbe writings of the ancient fathers or the church, partly of the ordinances of general and provincial councils, and partly of the decrees of the pope in former ages; and it is contained in two principal parts,—the decrees and the decretals. The decrees are ecclesiastical constitutions made by the popes and cardinals. The decretals are canonical epistles written by the pope, or by the pope and cardinals, at the suit of one or more persons, for the ordering and determining of some matter of controversy, and have the authority of a law. As the decrees set out the origin of the canon law, and the rights, dignities, and decrees of ecclesiastical persons, with their manner of election, ordination, etc, so the decretals contain the law to be used in the ecclesiastical courts. Jacob.— Canon religiosorum. In ecclesiastical records. A book wherein the religious of every greater convent had a fair transcript of the rules of their order, frequentiy read among them as their local statutes. Kennett, Gloss.; Cowell. 2. A system or aggregation of correlated rules, whether of statutory origin or otherwise, relating to and governing a particular department of legal science or a particular branch of the substantive law. —Canons of construction. The system of fundamental rules and maxims which are recognized as governing the construction or interpretation of written instruments.—Canons of descent. The legal rules-by which inheritances are regulated, and according to which estates are transmitted by descent from the an-oestor to the heir.—Canons of inheritance. The legal rules by which inheritances are regulated, and according to which estates are transmitted by descent from the ancestor to the heir. 2 Bl. Comm. 208. 3. A dignitary of the English church, being a prebendary or member of a cathedral chapter. 4. In the civil, Spanish, and Mexican law, an annual charge or rent; an emphyteutic rent 5. In old English .records, a prestation, pension, or customary payment Less...

Pertaining to, or in conformity to, the canons of the church. —Canonical obedience. That duty which a clergyman owes to the bishop who ordained him, to the bishop in whose diocese he is beneficed, and also to the metropolitan of such bishop. Wharton.

Pertaining to, or in conformity to, the canons of the church. —Canonical obedience. That duty which a clergyman owes to the bishop who ordained him, to the bishop in whose diocese he is beneficed, and also to the metropolitan of such bishop. Wharton. Less...

In old English law. A canon. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 69, § 2.

In old English law. A canon. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 69, § 2. Less...

One versed and skilled in the canon law; a professor of ecclesiastical law.

One versed and skilled in the canon law; a professor of ecclesiastical law. Less...

In English ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical benefice, attaching to the office of canon. Holthouse.

In English ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical benefice, attaching to the office of canon. Holthouse. Less...