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الصفحة 311 - A parson, persona ecclesice, is one that hath full possession of all the rights 'of a parochial church. He is called parson, persona, because by his person the church, which is an invisible body, is represented; and he is in himself a body corporate, in order to protect and defend the rights of the church, which he personates, by a perpetual succession.
الصفحة 47 - Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be "a rule of •• civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding " what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.
الصفحة 113 - Eliz. c. 2, to be punished by six months' imprisonment, and treble damages to the party injured. Maintenance. 12. Maintenance is an offence that bears a near relation to the former, being an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either party, with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it; a practice that was greatly encouraged by the first introduction of uses.
الصفحة 182 - This is sometimes a pecuniary compensation, as twopence an acre for the tithe of land : sometimes, it is a compensation in work and labour, as that the parson shall have only the twelfth cock of hay, and not the tenth, in consideration of the owner's making it for him : sometimes...
الصفحة 195 - Langham, as a kind of expiation and amends to the clergy for the personal tithes, and other ecclesiastical duties, which the laity in their lifetime might have neglected or forgotten to pay.
الصفحة 47 - LAW, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational.
الصفحة 43 - III. LAPSE is a species of forfeiture, whereby the right of presentation to a church accrues to the ordinary by neglect of the patron to present, to the metropolitan by neglect of the ordinary, and to the king by neglect of the metropolitan. For it being for the...
الصفحة 177 - Misprisions are generally divided into two sorts : negative, which consist in the concealment of something which ought to be revealed; and positive, which consist in the commission of something which ought not to be done.
الصفحة 425 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
الصفحة 334 - The other species of original writs is called a si fecerit te securum, from the words of the writ ; which directs the sheriff to cause the defendant to appear in court, without any option given him, provided the plaintiff gives the sheriff security effectually to prosecute his claim.