Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Beneficio primo ecclesiastico habendo
[latin "to have the first ecclesiastical benefice"] hist. A writ from the king to the lord chancellor ordering the appointment of a named person to the first vacant benefice.
Causa ecclesiae publicis aequiparatur; et summa est ratio quae pro religione facit
The cause of the church is equal to public causes; and paramount is the reason that acts in favor of religion.
Causae ecclesiae publicis causis aequiparantur
The causes of the church are equal to public causes.
Eadem causa diversis rationibus coram judicibus ecclesiasticis et secularibus ventilatur
The same cause is argued upon different principles before ecclesiastical and secular judges.
Ecclesia ecclesiae decima solvere non debet.
A church should not pay tithes to a church.
Ecclesia est domus mansionalis omnipotentis dei
The church is the mansionhouse of the omnipotent God.
Ecclesia est infra aetatem et in custodia domini regis, qua tenetur jura et haereditates ejusdem manu tenere et defendere
The church is underage and in the custody of the king, who is bound to uphold and defend its rights and inheritances.
Ecclesia fungitur vice minoris; meliorem conditionem suam facere potest, deteriorem nequaquam
The church enjoys the privilege of a minor; it can make its own condition better but not worse.
Ecclesia non moritur
The church does not die
Ecclesiae magis favendum est quam personae
The church is to be more favored than the parson (or an individual).
Jura ecclesiastica limitata sunt infra limites separatos
Ecclesiastical laws are limited within separate bounds.
Non debet dici tendere in praejudicium ecclesiasticae liberatatis quod pro rege et republica necessarium videtur
What seems necessary for the king and the state ought not to be said to tend to the prejudice of spiritual liberty.
Non est consonum rationi quod cognitio accessorii in curia christianitatis impediatur, ubi cognitio causae principalis ad forum ecclesiasticum noscitur pertinere
It is unreasonable that the cognizance of an accessory matter should be impeded in an ecclesiastical court, when the cognizance of the principal cause is admitted to appertain to an ecclesiastical court.
Quod datum est ecclesiae, datum est Deo
What has been given to the church has been given to God.
Trado tibe ecclesiam
I deliver this church (or living) to you.
ad ostium ecclesiae
[law latin] at the church door. see dower ad ostium ecclesiae.
advocati ecclesiae
[latin "church advocates"] hist. eccles. law. 1. church patrons who had a right to present a clerk to a benefice. see advowson. 2. legal advocates retained to argue cases relating to a church.
dower ad ostium ecclesiae
n. [Law Latin "dower at the church door"] Hist. An endowment of dower made by a man to his wife at the church door or porch, usu. as part of the marriage ceremony. "DOWER AD OSTIUM ECCLESIAE . . . . This appears to have been the original English dower . . . . It was formerly the most usual species of dower, and, though latterly fallen into disuse, was not abolished until the statute of 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 105, s. 13with all my worldly goods I thee endow.'" 1 Alexander M. Burrill, A Law Dictionary and Glossary 520 (2d ed. 1867).
ecclesia
n. [Latin "assembly"] 1. A place of religious worship. 2. A Christian assembly; a church.
ecclesiarch
n. The ruler of a church.
ecclesiastic
n. A clergyman; a priest; one consecrated to the service of the church.
ecclesiastical
adj. Of or relating to the church, esp. as an institution. -Also termed ecclesiastic.
ecclesiastical authorities
The church's hierarchy, answerable to the Crown, but set apart from the rest of the citizens, responsible for superintending public worship and other religious ceremonies and for administering spiritual counsel and instruction. * In England, the several orders of the clergy are (1) archbishops and bishops, (2) deans and chapters, (3) archdeacons, (4) rural deans, (5) parsons (under whom are included appropriators) and vicars, and (6) curates. Church-wardens, sidesmen, parish clerks, and sextons are also considered types of ecclesiastical authorities because their duties are connected with the church. Cf. ecclesiastical courts under COURTS.
ecclesiastical commissioners
Hist. English law. A group of people empowered to suggest measures to improve the established church's efficiency, to be ratified by orders in council. 0 This body of commissioners, established by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act (1836), has been dissolved. Its functions, rights, and property are now vested in church commissioners. St. 6 & 7 Will. 4, ch. 77.
ecclesiastical corporation
English law. A corporation that is organized for spiritual purposes or for the administration of property held for religious uses. This type of corporation is composed exclusively of ecclesiastics. - Also termed religious corporation. Cf. lay corporation."Ecclesiastical corporations. Corporations created for the furtherance of religion .... They are of two kinds: (1) corporations sole, i.e., bishops, certain deans, parsons and vicars; and (2) corporations aggregate, i.e., deans and chapters, and formerly prior and convent, abbot and monks, and the like. Such corporations are called 'religious corporations,' or 'religious societies,' in the United States." 1 Stewart Rapalje & Robert L. Lawrence, A Dictionary of American and English Law 432 (1883).
ecclesiastical court
1. A religious court that hears matters concerning a particular religion. 2. In England, a court having jurisdiction over matters concerning the Church of England (the established church) as well as the duties and rights of the people serving it, but whose modern jurisdiction is limited to matters of ecclesiastical discipline and church property. - Also termed church court; court christian; spiritual court.
ecclesiastical jurisdiction
Jurisdiction over ecclesiastical cases and controversies, such as that exercised by ecclesiastical courts.
ecclesiastical law
1. The body of law derived largely from canon and civil law and administered by the ecclesiastical courts. 2. The law governing the doctrine and discipline of a particular church; esp., Anglican canon law. -Also termed jus ecclesiasticum; law spiritual. Cf. CANON LAW.
ecclesiastical matter
A matter that concerns church doctrine, creed, or form of worship, or the adoption and enforcement, within a religious association, of laws and regulations to govern the membership, including the power to exclude from such an association those deemed unworthy of membership.
ecclesiastical sentence
The judgment in an ecclesiastical case.
ecclesiastical things
Property (such as buildings and cemeteries) given to a church to supp,)rt the poor or for any other pious use.
fieri facias de bonis ecclesiasticis
[Latin "that you cause to be made of the ecclesiastical goods"] Hist. A writ of execution - used when the defendant was a beneficed clerk who had no lay fee - that commanded the bishop to satisfy the judgment from the ecclesiastical goods and chattels of the defendant within the diocese. 0 This was accomplished by issuing a sequestration to levy the debt out of the defendant's benefice. This writ was issued after a fieri facias had been returned nulla bona.
forum ecclesiasticum
[Latin] Hist. An ecclesiastical court. -Also termed judicium ecclesiasticum.
gardianus ecclesiae
A churchwarden. garene (ga-reenl. I Law French l See WARREN.
homo ecclesiasticus
A church vassal; one bound to serve a church, esp. in an agricultural capacity.
in facie ecclesiae
adv. & adj. [Law Latin "in the face of the church"] Hist. In the presence of the church. ( A marriage solemnized in a parish church or public chapel was said to be in facie ecclesiae.
in foro ecclesiastico
adu. [Law Latin] In an ecclesiastical court.
judicium ecclesiasticum
See FORUM ECCLESIASTICUM.
jure ecclesiae
In right of the church.
jus ecclesiasticum
[Law Latin] See ECCLESIASTICAL LAW.
libertas ecclesiastica
n. [Law Latin "church liberty"] Hist. Immunity from secular law, enjoyed by religious houses that are subject to ecclesiastical law.
matrix ecclesia
[Latin] A mother church; a cathedral church in relation to parochial churches in the same diocese.
procuratores ecclesiae parochialis
[Latin] Hist. A churchwarden; a representative of a parish church.
restitutione extracti ab ecclesia
[Latin] Eccles. law. A writ restoring someone who had been suspected or accused of a felony to the church.