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Appellatory

An appellatory libel ought to contain the name of the party appellant.

Asylum

So sacred was the church to some, that it had the right of an asylum or sanctuary.

Before

If a suit be begun before an archdeacon.

Capitular

The chapter itself, and all its members or capitulars.

Clerk

All persons were styled clerks that served in the church of Christ.

Coerce

Punishments are manifold, that they may coerce this profligate sort.

Cognizable

Cognizable both in the ecclesiastical and secular courts.

Convene

By the papal canon law, clerks . . . can not be convened before any but an ecclesiastical judge.

Conventicle

They are commanded to abstain from all conventicles of men whatsoever.

Delinquent

A delinquent ought to be cited in the place or jurisdiction where the delinquency was committed.

Fulmination

The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule.

Idoneous

An ecclesiastical benefice . . . ought to be conferred on an idoneous person.

Imputable

The fault lies at his door, and she is no wise imputable.

Inhibit

Burial may not be inhibited or denied to any one.

Installation

On the election, the bishop gives a mandate for his installation.

Instruct

They speak to the merits of a cause, after the proctor has prepared and instructed the same for a hearing.

Interdict

An archbishop may not only excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his vicar general may do the same.

Lapse

If the archbishop shall not fill it up within six months ensuing, it lapses to the king.

An appeal may be deserted by the appellant's lapsing the term of law.

Lump

The expenses ought to be lumped together.

Monk

Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in the substantial vows of religion; but in other respects monks and regulars differ; for that regulars, vows excepted, are not tied up to so strict a rule of life as monks are.

Numerary

A supernumerary canon, when he obtains a prebend, becomes a numerary canon.

Particular

The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written.

Prelacy

Prelacies may be termed the greater benefices.

Proceed

This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence.

Rail

It ought to be fenced in and railed.

Reprobate

Such an answer as this is reprobated and disallowed of in law; I do not believe it, unless the deed appears.

Scrutinize

Whose votes they were obliged to scrutinize.

Speed

Judicial acts . . . are sped in open court at the instance of one or both of the parties.

Sprinkling

Baptism may well enough be performed by sprinkling or effusion of water.

Strangle

Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself.

Thunder

An archdeacon, as being a prelate, may thunder out an ecclesiastical censure.

Verbose

Too verbose in their way of speaking.

Visitatorial

An archdeacon has visitatorial power.

Voidable

If the metropolitan . . . grants letters of administration, such administration is not, but voidable by sentence.