Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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sidesman. Eccles.

Law. A church officer who originally reported to the bishop on clerical and congregational misdeeds, including heretical acts, and later became a standing officer whose duties gradually devolved by custom on the churchwarden. _ Also termed synodsman questman.Sierra-Mobile doctrine. See MOBILE-SIERRA DOCTRINE.