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1. adultery, n. View full entry 1678
...Ecclesiastical Law. The illicit occupation of a benefice, esp. a bishopric, during the lifetime of the legal incumbent; (also) the transferral of a bishop from one see to another. Now ...
2. advocacy, n. View full entry 1711
...Ecclesiastical Law. = advowsonhist. in later use....
3. advocation, n. View full entry c1460
...Chiefly Ecclesiastical Law. = advowson; guardianship, protection, or patronage of a church or religious house. hist. in later use....
4. advocation, n. View full entry c1540
...Law (chiefly Sc.). The referral of a legal action from a lower court to a higher court, ordered by the higher court; an instance of this. Cf. advocate...
5. advowee, n. View full entry 1593
...A guardian, protector, or patron of a church or religious house; (Ecclesiastical Law) one holding the right to present a member of the clergy to a particular benefice or living....
6. advowry, n. View full entry c1460
...Ecclesiastical Law. = advowson; the office or function of an advowee (advowee1).= avowry1; (also) a person responsible for providing this protection (or perh.:...
7. † advowsance, n. View full entry 1655
...= advowson...
8. † advowsante, n. View full entry 1539
...= advowson; (also) a document granting this....
9. † advowsement, n. View full entry 1590
...= advowson...
10. advowson, n. View full entry c1300
...The right to present a member of the clergy to a particular benefice or living. Also occas. more generally: guardianship, protection, or patronage of a church or religious house; an instance of...
11. advowson-monger in advowson, n. View full entry 1632
...a person who deals in or profits from advowsons....
12. apostle, n. View full entry
...pl. in Roman Law, A short statement of the case, sent up by a lower to a higher court, when an appeal is made....
13. apostle, n. View full entry 1726
...in Ecclesiastical Law (see quot. 1753). Obs....
14. apparitor, n. View full entry 1528
...An officer of an ecclesiastical court....
15. arch, n.1 View full entry 1297
...or briefly Arches: the ecclesiastical court of appeal for the province of Canterbury, formerly held at the church of St. Mary-le-Bow (or ‘of the Arches’), so named from the arches...
16. assembly, n. View full entry a1572
...Hence in various specific or historical uses:...
17. audience, n. View full entry a1387
...The action, practice, or fact of holding a judicial hearing or hearings; Also: the opportunity to have a case or complaint heard in a formal assembly or court of law. Obs....
18. auditor, n. View full entry 1640
...One who listens in a judicial capacity and tries cases brought before him for hearing; spec. the official presiding in the archbishop's Audience Court (see audience1)....
19. Beth Din, n. View full entry 1795
...A Jewish court composed of the Chief Rabbi and two or more assistants, responsible for matters of Jewish ecclesiastical law and the settlement of disputes between Jews....
20. bigamist, n. View full entry 1658
...Ecclesiastical Law. A man or woman who has remarried after being widowed. See bigamy2. Now hist....
