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Bishoprick
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BishoprickEcclesiastical law. The extent of country over which a bishop has jurisdiction a see; a diocese.
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Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Country
By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
Bishop
An ecclesiastical officer, who is the chief of the clergy of his diocese, and is the archbishop's assistant.
Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.
Diocese
Ecclesiastical law. The district over which a bishop exercises his spiritual functions.
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Bishop
An ecclesiastical officer, who is the chief of the clergy of his diocese, and is the archbishop's assistant.
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Bipartite
Of two parts.
Birretum or birretus
A cap or coif used formerly in England, by judges and sergeants at law.
Birth
The act of being wholly brought into the world. The whole body must be detached from that of the mother, in order to make the birth complete.
Bisaile
Domestic relations. A corruption of the French word besaieul, the father of the grandfather or grandmother.
Bishop
An ecclesiastical officer, who is the chief of the clergy of his diocese, and is the archbishop's assistant.
Bishoprick
Black book of the admiralty
An ancient book compiled in the reign of Edw. III. At large, a view of the crimes and offences cognizable in the admiralty; ordinances and commentaries on matters of prize and maritime torts, injuries and contracts
Black book of the exchequer
The name of a book kept in the English exchequer, containing a collection of treaties) conventions, charters.
Black mail
When rents were reserved payable in work, grain, and the like, they were called reditus nigri, or black mail, to distinguish them from white rents or blanch farms, or such as were paid in money.
Blacke booke of the admiralty
The name given by Sir Travers Twiss to the first volume of his four-volume collection, containing a variety of medieval maritime law materials, probably first compiled in the mid-fifteenth century during the reign of King Henry VI. In particular, the Blacke Booke of the Admiralty contains a version of the Rôles of Oleron.
Blacking
A practice used by certain seafarers' trades union against flag-of-convenience shipowners to compel them, by measures causing economic duress.
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Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Country
By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
Bishop
An ecclesiastical officer, who is the chief of the clergy of his diocese, and is the archbishop's assistant.
Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.
Diocese
Ecclesiastical law. The district over which a bishop exercises his spiritual functions.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Bishop
An ecclesiastical officer, who is the chief of the clergy of his diocese, and is the archbishop's assistant.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Bipartite
Of two parts.
Birretum or birretus
A cap or coif used formerly in England, by judges and sergeants at law.
Birth
The act of being wholly brought into the world. The whole body must be detached from that of the mother, in order to make the birth complete.
Bisaile
Domestic relations. A corruption of the French word besaieul, the father of the grandfather or grandmother.
Bishop
An ecclesiastical officer, who is the chief of the clergy of his diocese, and is the archbishop's assistant.
Bishoprick
Black book of the admiralty
An ancient book compiled in the reign of Edw. III. At large, a view of the crimes and offences cognizable in the admiralty; ordinances and commentaries on matters of prize and maritime torts, injuries and contracts
Black book of the exchequer
The name of a book kept in the English exchequer, containing a collection of treaties) conventions, charters.
Black mail
When rents were reserved payable in work, grain, and the like, they were called reditus nigri, or black mail, to distinguish them from white rents or blanch farms, or such as were paid in money.
Blacke booke of the admiralty
The name given by Sir Travers Twiss to the first volume of his four-volume collection, containing a variety of medieval maritime law materials, probably first compiled in the mid-fifteenth century during the reign of King Henry VI. In particular, the Blacke Booke of the Admiralty contains a version of the Rôles of Oleron.
Blacking
A practice used by certain seafarers' trades union against flag-of-convenience shipowners to compel them, by measures causing economic duress.
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