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Episcopacy
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EpiscopacyEcclesiastical law. A form of government by diocesan bishops; the office or condition of a bishop.
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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.
Government
"natural and political law. The manner in which sovereignty is exercised in each state. There are three simple forms of government, the democratic, the aristocratic, and monarchical. But these three simple forms may be varied to infinity by the mixture and divisions of their different powers. Sometimes by the word government is understood the body of men, or the individual in the state, to whom is entrusted the executive power. It is taken in this sense when the government is spoken of in opposition to other bodies in the state.
Office
An office is a right to exercise a public function or employment, and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it
Condition
Persons. The situation in civil society which creates certain relations between the individual, to whom it is applied, and one or more others, from which mutual rights and obligations arise.
Bishop
An ecclesiastical officer, who is the chief of the clergy of his diocese, and is the archbishop's assistant.
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Epistles
Civil law. The name given to a species of rescript. Epistles were the answers given by the prince, when magistrates submitted to him a question of law.
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Entry of goods
Commercial law. An entry of goods at the custom-house is the submitting to the officers appointed by law, who have the collection of the customs, goods imported. into the United States, together with a statement or description of such goods, and the original invoices of the same.
Environment
The conditions, influences, or forces which affect the desirability and value of property, as well as the effect on people's lives.
Environmental protection agency
(EPA) A federal agency created to permit coordinated and environment effective governmental action to preserve the quality of the environment.
Envoy
International law. In diplomatic language, an envoy is a minister of the second rank, on whom his sovereign or government has conferred a degree of dignity and respectability, which, without being on a level with an ambassador, immediately follows, and among ministers, yields the preeminence to him alone.
Epilepsy
Medical jurisprudence. A discase of the brain, which occurs in paroxysms, with uncertain intervals between them.
Episcopacy
Epistles
Civil law. The name given to a species of rescript. Epistles were the answers given by the prince, when magistrates submitted to him a question of law.
Equal protection of the law
The guarantee in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that all persons be treated equally by the law.
Equinox
The name given to two periods of the year when the days and nights are equal; that is, when the space of time between the rising and setting of the sun is one half of a natural day.
Equitable
That which is in conformity to the natural law.
Equitable action
An action which may be brought for the purpose of restraining the threatened infliction of wrongs or injuries, and the prevention of threatened illegal action.
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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.
Government
"natural and political law. The manner in which sovereignty is exercised in each state. There are three simple forms of government, the democratic, the aristocratic, and monarchical. But these three simple forms may be varied to infinity by the mixture and divisions of their different powers. Sometimes by the word government is understood the body of men, or the individual in the state, to whom is entrusted the executive power. It is taken in this sense when the government is spoken of in opposition to other bodies in the state.
Office
An office is a right to exercise a public function or employment, and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it
Condition
Persons. The situation in civil society which creates certain relations between the individual, to whom it is applied, and one or more others, from which mutual rights and obligations arise.
Bishop
An ecclesiastical officer, who is the chief of the clergy of his diocese, and is the archbishop's assistant.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Epistles
Civil law. The name given to a species of rescript. Epistles were the answers given by the prince, when magistrates submitted to him a question of law.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Entry of goods
Commercial law. An entry of goods at the custom-house is the submitting to the officers appointed by law, who have the collection of the customs, goods imported. into the United States, together with a statement or description of such goods, and the original invoices of the same.
Environment
The conditions, influences, or forces which affect the desirability and value of property, as well as the effect on people's lives.
Environmental protection agency
(EPA) A federal agency created to permit coordinated and environment effective governmental action to preserve the quality of the environment.
Envoy
International law. In diplomatic language, an envoy is a minister of the second rank, on whom his sovereign or government has conferred a degree of dignity and respectability, which, without being on a level with an ambassador, immediately follows, and among ministers, yields the preeminence to him alone.
Epilepsy
Medical jurisprudence. A discase of the brain, which occurs in paroxysms, with uncertain intervals between them.
Episcopacy
Epistles
Civil law. The name given to a species of rescript. Epistles were the answers given by the prince, when magistrates submitted to him a question of law.
Equal protection of the law
The guarantee in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that all persons be treated equally by the law.
Equinox
The name given to two periods of the year when the days and nights are equal; that is, when the space of time between the rising and setting of the sun is one half of a natural day.
Equitable
That which is in conformity to the natural law.
Equitable action
An action which may be brought for the purpose of restraining the threatened infliction of wrongs or injuries, and the prevention of threatened illegal action.
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