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CANONICAIi. 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 he is beneficed, and also to the metropolitan 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. In English ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical benefice, attaching to the office of canon. Holthouse. CANT. In the civil law. A method of dividing property held in common by two or more joint owners. See Hayes v. Ouny, 9 Mart. O. S. (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. OF. 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 exercises of conferring degrees in prejudice of the two universities. Wharton. CANTRED. A district comprising a hun dred villages; a hundred. A term used in Wales in the same sense as "hundred" is in England. Cowell; Termes de la Ley. CANUM. In feudal law. A species of duty or tribute payable from tenant to lord, usually consisting of produce of the land. CANVASS. The act of examining and counting the returns of votes cast at a pub lic election. Bowler v. Eisenhood, 1 S. Dak. 577, 48 N. W. 136, 12 L. R. A. 705; Clark v. Tracy, 95 Iowa, 410, 64 N. W. 290; Hudson v. Solomon, 19 Kan. 180; People v. Sausa lito, 106 Cal. 500, 39 Pac. 937; In re Stew art, 24 App. Div. 201, 48 N. Y. Supp. 957. CANONRY. CANTERBURY, ARCHBISHOP

erly, the Protestants went, and the Papists new go, in procession with lighted candles; they also consecrate candles on this day for the service of the ensuing year. It is the fourth of the four cross quarter-days of the year. Wharton CANFARA. In old records. A trial by hot iron, formerly used in England. Whish aw. CANON. 1. A law, rule, or ordinance in general, and of the church in particular. An ecclesiastical law or statute. —Canon law. A body of ecclesiastical juris prudence which, in countries where the Roman Catholic church is established, is composed of maxims and rules drawn from patristic sources, ordinances and decrees of general councils, and the decretals and bulls of the popes. In Eng land, according to Blackstone, there is a kind of national canon law, composed of legatine and provincial constitutions enacted in England prior to the reformation, and adapted to the exigencies of the English church and kingdom. 1 Bl. Comm. 82. The canon law consists part ly 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 de crees of the pope* in former ages; and it is contained in two principal parts,—the decrees and the decretals. The decrees are ecclesiastical constitutions made by the popes and cardinals. The decretals are canonical epistles written 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 Bet out the origiD of the canon law, and the rights, dignities, and decrees of ecclesiastical persons, with their manner of election, ordina tion, etc., so the decretals contain the law to be used in the ecclesiastical courts. Jacob.— Canon religiosorum. In ecclesiastical rec srds. A book wherein the religious of every greater convent had a fair transcript of the rules of their order, frequently read among hem as their local statutes. Kennett, Gloss.; [Lowell. 2. A system or aggregation of correlated •ules, whether of statutory origin or other vise, relating to and governing a particular lepartment of legal science or a particular jranch of the substantive law. -Canons of construction. The system of undamental rules and maxims which are rec ignized as governing the construction or inter iretation of written instruments.—Canons of lescent. The legal rules by which inheritan es are regulated, and according to which es ates are transmitted by descent from the att estor to the heir.—Canons of inheritance. •"he legal rules by which inheritances are regu ited, and according to which estates are trans lated by descent from the ancestor to the heir. Bl. Comm. 208. 3. A dignitary of the English church, be ig a prebendary or member of a cathedral hapter. 4. In the civil, Spanish, and Mexican law, n annual charge or rent; an emphyteutic jnt 5. In old English records, a prestation, ension, or customary payment

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