Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

CANTRED

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CANFARA

honor of the purification of the Virgin Mary, being forty days after her miraculous deliv ery. At this festival, formerly, the Protest ants went, and the Papists now go, in proces sion with lighted candles; they also conse crate candles on this day for the service, of the ensuing year. It is the fourth of the four cross quarter-days of the year. Whar ton. CANFARA. In old records. A trial by hot iron, formerly used in England. Whish aw. CANON. A law, rule, or ordinance in general, and of the church in particular. An ecclesiastical law or statute. One of the dignitaries of the English church; being a prebendary or member of a chapter. In the civil, Spanish, and Mexican law. An annual charge or rent; an emphyteutic rent. See 15 Cal. 556. In old English records. A prestation, pension, or customary payment. Cowell. CANON LAW. A body of ecclesiastical jurisprudence which, in countries where the Roman Catholic church is established, is com posed of maxims and rules drawn from pa tristic sources, ordinances and decrees of general councils, and the decretals and bulls of the popes. In England, according to Blackstone, there is a kind of national canon law, composed of legatine and provincial con stitutions enacted m England prior to the reformation, and adapted to the exigencies of the English church and kingdom. 1 81. €omm. 82. The canon law consists partly of certain rules taken out of the Scripture, partly of the writings of the ancient fathers of the church, partly of the ordinances of general and provincial councils, and partly of the decrees of the popes in former ages; and it is contained in two principal parts,—the decrees and the decretals. The decrees are eccle siastical constitutions made by the popes and car dinals. The decretals are canonical epistles writ ten by the pope, or by the pope and cardinals, at the suit of one or more persons, for the ordering and determining of some matter of controversy, and have the authority of a law. As the decrees Ret out the origin of the canon law, and the rights, dignities, and decrees of ecclesiastical persons, with their manner of election, ordination, etc., so the decretals contain the law to be used in the ec olesiastical courts. Jacob. CANON RELIGIOSORUM. Lat. In ecclesiastical records. A book wherein the religious of every greater convent had a fair transcript of the rules of their order, fre quently read among them as their local stat utes. Kennett, Gloss.; Cowell.

CANONICAL. Pertaining to, or in con formity to, the canons of the church. CANONICAL OBEDIENCE. That duty which a clergyman owes to the bishop who ordained him, to the bishop in whose diocese be is beneficed, and also to the met ropolitan of such bishop. Wharton. CANONICUS. In old English law. A canon. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 69, § 2. CANONIST. One versed and skilled in the canon law; a professor of ecclesiastical law. CANONBY. In English ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical benefice, attaching to the office of canon. Holthouse, CANONS OP DESCENT. The legal rules by which inheritances are regulated, and according to which estates are transmit ted by descent from the ancestor to the heir. CANONS OF INHERITANCE. The legal rules by which inheritances are regu lated, and according to which estates are transmitted by descent from the ancestor to the heir. 2 Bl. Comm. 208. CANT. In the civil law. A method of dividing property held in common by two or more joint owners. See 9 Mart. (La.) 87. CANTEL, or CANTLE. A lump, or that which is added above measure; also a piece of anything, as "cantel of bread," or the like. Blount. CANTERBURY, ARCHBISHOP OP. In English ecclesiastical law. The primate of all England; the chief ecclesiastical digni tary in the church. His customary privilege is to crown the kings and queens of England; while the Archbishop of York has the privi lege to crown the queen consort, and be her perpetual chaplain. The Archbishop of Can terbury has also, by 25 Hen. VIII. c. 21, the power of granting dispensations in any case not contrary to the holy scriptures and the law of God, where the pope used formerly to grant them, which is the foundation of his granting special licenses to marry at any place or time; to hold two livings, (which must be confirmed under the great seal,) and the like; and on this also is founded the right he exer cises of conferring degrees in prejudice of the two universities. Wharton. CANTRED. A district comprising a hundred villages; a hundred. A term used in Wales in the same sense as "hundred" is in England. Cowell; Termes de la Ley.

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