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Deacon
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DeaconEcclesiastical law. A minister or servant in the church whose office, in some churches, is to assist the priest in divine service, and the distribution of the sacrament.
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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.
Minister
1) Government. An officer who is placed near the sovereign, and is invested with the administration of some one of the principal branches of the government. 2) International law. This is the general name given to public functionaries who represent their country abroad, such as ambassadors, nvoys, and residents. A custom of recent origin has introduced a new kind of ministers, without any particular determination of character; these are simply called ministers, to indicate that they are invested with the general character of a sovereign's mandatories, without any particular assignment of rank or character. 3) Ecclesiastical. law. One ordained by some church to preach the gospel. 4) Mediator. An officer appointed by the government of one nation, with the consent of two other nations, who have a matter in dispute, with a view by his interference and good office to have such matter settled.
Church
A temple or building consecrated to the Honor of God and religion; or, an assembly of persons, united by the profession of the same Christian faith, met together for all religious worship. Robertson v. Bullions, 9 Barb. 95 (1850). The civil courts have only to do with the rights of property. When a right of property depends on a civil court question, and that question has been decided by the highest tribunal within the religious organization to which it has been carried, the civil courts accept that decision as final. Relations of Civil Law to Church Policy (1875) Hon. William Strong; Watson v. Jones, 13 Wall. 713, 722-31 (1871).
Office
An office is a right to exercise a public function or employment, and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it
Service
1) Contracts. The being employed to serve another. 2) Feudal law. That duty which the tenant owes to his lord, by reason of his fee or estate. 3) Practice. To execute a writ or process; as, to serve a writ of capias signifies to arrest a defendant under the process;
Distribution
By this term is understood the division of an intestate's estate according to law.
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De son tort demesne
Of his own wrong, pleading. The name of a replication in an action for a wrong or injury. When the defendant pleads a matter merely in excuse of an injury to the person or reputation of another, the plaintiff may reply de son tort demesne sans tiel cause; that it was the defendant's own wrong without such cause.
De terris
Out of the lands.
De una parte
A deed de una parte, is one where only one party grants, gives, or binds himself to do.a thing to another.
De vicineto
From the vicinage or country.
De warrantia diei, writ
English law. Where a man is required to appear on a certain day in person, and before that day the king certifies that the party is in the king's service, he may sue this writ, commanding the justices not to record his default for that day for the cause before mentioned.
Deacon
Dead
Something which has no life; figuratively, something of no value.
Dead body
Criminal law. A corpse.
Dead freight
Contracts. When the charterer of a vessel has shipped part of the goods on board, and is not ready to ship the remainder, the master, unless restrained by his special contract, may take other goods on board, and the amount which is not supplied, required to complete the cargo, is called dead freight.
Dead man's part
English law. By the custom of London, when a deceased freeman of the city left a widow and children, after deducting what was calledthe widow's chamber, (q.v.) his personal property was divided into three parts; one of which belonged to the widow, another tot he children, and the third to the administrator.
Dead-born
Descent, persons. Children dead-born are considered, in law, as if they had never been conceived, so that no one can claim a title, by descent, through such dead-born child.
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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.
Minister
1) Government. An officer who is placed near the sovereign, and is invested with the administration of some one of the principal branches of the government. 2) International law. This is the general name given to public functionaries who represent their country abroad, such as ambassadors, nvoys, and residents. A custom of recent origin has introduced a new kind of ministers, without any particular determination of character; these are simply called ministers, to indicate that they are invested with the general character of a sovereign's mandatories, without any particular assignment of rank or character. 3) Ecclesiastical. law. One ordained by some church to preach the gospel. 4) Mediator. An officer appointed by the government of one nation, with the consent of two other nations, who have a matter in dispute, with a view by his interference and good office to have such matter settled.
Church
A temple or building consecrated to the Honor of God and religion; or, an assembly of persons, united by the profession of the same Christian faith, met together for all religious worship. Robertson v. Bullions, 9 Barb. 95 (1850). The civil courts have only to do with the rights of property. When a right of property depends on a civil court question, and that question has been decided by the highest tribunal within the religious organization to which it has been carried, the civil courts accept that decision as final. Relations of Civil Law to Church Policy (1875) Hon. William Strong; Watson v. Jones, 13 Wall. 713, 722-31 (1871).
Office
An office is a right to exercise a public function or employment, and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it
Service
1) Contracts. The being employed to serve another. 2) Feudal law. That duty which the tenant owes to his lord, by reason of his fee or estate. 3) Practice. To execute a writ or process; as, to serve a writ of capias signifies to arrest a defendant under the process;
Distribution
By this term is understood the division of an intestate's estate according to law.
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De son tort demesne
Of his own wrong, pleading. The name of a replication in an action for a wrong or injury. When the defendant pleads a matter merely in excuse of an injury to the person or reputation of another, the plaintiff may reply de son tort demesne sans tiel cause; that it was the defendant's own wrong without such cause.
De terris
Out of the lands.
De una parte
A deed de una parte, is one where only one party grants, gives, or binds himself to do.a thing to another.
De vicineto
From the vicinage or country.
De warrantia diei, writ
English law. Where a man is required to appear on a certain day in person, and before that day the king certifies that the party is in the king's service, he may sue this writ, commanding the justices not to record his default for that day for the cause before mentioned.
Deacon
Dead
Something which has no life; figuratively, something of no value.
Dead body
Criminal law. A corpse.
Dead freight
Contracts. When the charterer of a vessel has shipped part of the goods on board, and is not ready to ship the remainder, the master, unless restrained by his special contract, may take other goods on board, and the amount which is not supplied, required to complete the cargo, is called dead freight.
Dead man's part
English law. By the custom of London, when a deceased freeman of the city left a widow and children, after deducting what was calledthe widow's chamber, (q.v.) his personal property was divided into three parts; one of which belonged to the widow, another tot he children, and the third to the administrator.
Dead-born
Descent, persons. Children dead-born are considered, in law, as if they had never been conceived, so that no one can claim a title, by descent, through such dead-born child.
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