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Ecclesiastical
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EcclesiasticalBelonging to, or set apart for the church.
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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).
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Ecclesia
In classical Greek this word signifies any assembly. But ordinarily, in the New Testament, the word denotes a Christian assembly, and is rendered into English by the word church.
Ecclesiastic
A clergyman; one destined to the divine ministry, as, a bishop, a priest, a deacon.
Ecclesiastical courts
English law. Courts held by the king's authority as supreme governor of the church, for matters which chiefly concern religion.
Ecclesiastical law
By this phrase it is intended to include all those rules which govern ecclesiastical tribunals.
Ecclesiastics
Canon law. Those persons who compose the hierarchial state of the church. They are regular and secular.
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Eat inde sine die
Words used on an acquittal, or when a prisoner is to be discharged, that he may go without day, that is, that he be dismissed.
Eaves-droppers
Criminal law. Persons as wait under walls or windows or the eaves of a house, to listen to discourses, and thereupon to frame mischievous tales.
Ecchymosis
Medical jurisprudence. Blackness. It is an extravasation of blood by rupture of capillary vessels, and hence it follows contusion; but it may exist, as in cases of scurvy, and other morbid conditions, without the latter.
Ecclesia
In classical Greek this word signifies any assembly. But ordinarily, in the New Testament, the word denotes a Christian assembly, and is rendered into English by the word church.
Ecclesiastic
A clergyman; one destined to the divine ministry, as, a bishop, a priest, a deacon.
Ecclesiastical
Ecclesiastical courts
English law. Courts held by the king's authority as supreme governor of the church, for matters which chiefly concern religion.
Ecclesiastical law
By this phrase it is intended to include all those rules which govern ecclesiastical tribunals.
Ecclesiastics
Canon law. Those persons who compose the hierarchial state of the church. They are regular and secular.
Eclampsia parturientium
Medical jurisprudence. The name of a disease accompanied by apoplectic convulsions, and which produces aberration of mind at childbirth.
Economic loss
Economic loss is financial damages sustained as a result of a tort or delict. The issue in the common law is the following: Should a plaintiff recover even when there has been no physical damage.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
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).
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Ecclesia
In classical Greek this word signifies any assembly. But ordinarily, in the New Testament, the word denotes a Christian assembly, and is rendered into English by the word church.
Ecclesiastic
A clergyman; one destined to the divine ministry, as, a bishop, a priest, a deacon.
Ecclesiastical courts
English law. Courts held by the king's authority as supreme governor of the church, for matters which chiefly concern religion.
Ecclesiastical law
By this phrase it is intended to include all those rules which govern ecclesiastical tribunals.
Ecclesiastics
Canon law. Those persons who compose the hierarchial state of the church. They are regular and secular.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Eat inde sine die
Words used on an acquittal, or when a prisoner is to be discharged, that he may go without day, that is, that he be dismissed.
Eaves-droppers
Criminal law. Persons as wait under walls or windows or the eaves of a house, to listen to discourses, and thereupon to frame mischievous tales.
Ecchymosis
Medical jurisprudence. Blackness. It is an extravasation of blood by rupture of capillary vessels, and hence it follows contusion; but it may exist, as in cases of scurvy, and other morbid conditions, without the latter.
Ecclesia
In classical Greek this word signifies any assembly. But ordinarily, in the New Testament, the word denotes a Christian assembly, and is rendered into English by the word church.
Ecclesiastic
A clergyman; one destined to the divine ministry, as, a bishop, a priest, a deacon.
Ecclesiastical
Ecclesiastical courts
English law. Courts held by the king's authority as supreme governor of the church, for matters which chiefly concern religion.
Ecclesiastical law
By this phrase it is intended to include all those rules which govern ecclesiastical tribunals.
Ecclesiastics
Canon law. Those persons who compose the hierarchial state of the church. They are regular and secular.
Eclampsia parturientium
Medical jurisprudence. The name of a disease accompanied by apoplectic convulsions, and which produces aberration of mind at childbirth.
Economic loss
Economic loss is financial damages sustained as a result of a tort or delict. The issue in the common law is the following: Should a plaintiff recover even when there has been no physical damage.
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