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EOCLESIA NOH MORITUR

EORIVAIN

Ind. 35.— Ecclesiastical law. The body of jurisprudence administered by the ecclesiastical courts of England; derived, in large measure, from the canon and civil law. As now restrict ed, it applies mainly to the affairs, and the doc trine, discipline, and worship, of the establish ed church. De Witt v. De Witt, 67 Ohio St. 340, 66 N. E. 136.— Ecclesiastical things. This term, as used in the canon law, includes church buildings, church property, cemeteries, and property given to the church for the sup port of the poor or for any other pious use. Smith v. Bonhoof. 2 Mich. 115.

It can make its own condition better, but not worse. Ecclesia non moritur. 2 Inst. 3. The church does not die. Ecclesise magis favendnm est qnarn personse. Godol. Ecc. Law, 172. The church is to be more favored than the par son. The image or sculpture of a church in ancient times was often cut out or cast in plate or other metal, and preserved as a religious treasure or relic, and to perpetuate the memory of some fa mous churches. Jacob. ECCLESIA SCULPTURA. ECCLESIASTIC, a priest; a man consecrated to the service of the church. Something belong ing to or set apart for the church, as distin guished from "civil" or ''secular," with re In England, the clergy, under the sovereign, as temporal head of the Church, set apart from the rest of the people or laity, in order to superintend the pub lic worship of God and the other ceremonies of religion, and to administer spiritual counsel and instruction. 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 appro priators) and vicars; (6) curates. Church wardens or sidesmen, and parish clerks and sex tons, inasmuch as their duties are connected with the church, may be considered to be a species of ecclesiastical authorities. Wharton. —Ecclesiastical commissioners. In English law. A body corporate, erected by St. 6 & 7 Wm. IV, c. 77, empowered to suggest measures conducive to the efficiency of the established church, to be ratified by orders in council. Wharton. See 3 Steph. Comm. 156, 157.— Ec clesiastical corporation. See CORPORATION. —Ecclesiastical council. In New England. A church court or tribunal, having functions partly judicial and partly advisory, appointed to determine questions relating to church discip line, orthodoxy, standing of ministers, contro versies between ministers and their churches, differences and divisions in churches, and the like. Stearns v. First Parish, 21 Pick. (Mass.) 124; Sheldon v. Congregational Parish, 24 Pick. (Mass.) 281.—Ecclesiastical courts. A sys tem of courts in England, held by authority of the sovereign, and having jurisdiction over mat ters pertaining to the religion and ritual of the established church, and the rights, duties, and discipline of ecclesiastical persons as such. Tbey are as follows: The archdeacon's court, consistory court, court of arches, court of pe culiars, prerogative court, court of delegates, court of convocation, court of audience, court of faculties, and court of commissioners of re view. See those several titles; and see 3 Bl. Comm. 64-68. Equitable Life Assur. Soc. v. Paterson, 41 Ga. 364, 5 Am. Rep. 535 —Eccle siastical division of England. This is a division into provinces, dioceses, archdeaconries, rural deaneries, and parishes.— Ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Jurisdiction over ecclesiastical cases and controversies; such as appertains to the ecclesiastical courts. Short v. Stotts, 58 n. A clergyman; ECCLESIASTICAL. gard to the world. Wharton. —Ecclesiastical authorities. ECCLESIARCH. The ruler of a church.

ECDICUS.

The attorney, proctor, or ad

vocate of a corporation.

Episcoporum

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bishops' proctors; church lawyers.

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Reeve, Eng. Law, 65. ECHANTILLON.

In French law. One of the two parts or pieces of a wooden tally. That in possession of the debtor is properly called the "tally," the other "echantillon." Poth. Obi. pt 4, c. 1, art. 2, § 8. ECHEVIN. In French law. A munic ipal officer corresponding with alderman or burgess, and having in some instances a civil jurisdiction in certain causes of trifling im portance. ECHOLALIA. In medical jurisprudence. The constant and senseless repetition of par ticular words or phrases, recognized as a sign or symptom of insanity or of aphasia. ECHOUEMENT. In French marine law. Stranding. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c 12, s. 13, no. 1. ECLAMPSIA PARTURIENTIUM. In medical jurisprudence. Puerperal convul sions ; a convulsive seizure which sometimes suddenly attacks a woman in labor or direct ly after, generally attended by unconscious ness and occasionally by mental aberration. ECLECTIC PRACTICE. In medicine. That system followed by physicians who se lect their modes of practice and medicines from various schools. Webster. "Without professing to understand much of medical phraseology, we suppose that the terms 'allopathic practice and 'legitimate business' mean the .ordinary method commonly adopted by the great body of learned and eminent physi cians, which is taught in their institutions, es tablished by their highest authorities, and ac cepted by the larger and more respectable por tion of the community. By 'eclectic practice,' without imputing to it, as the counsel for the plaintiff seem inclined to, an odor of illegality, we presume is intended another and different system, unusual and eccentric, not countenanced by the classes before referred to, but characteriz ed by them as spurious and denounced as dan gerous. It is sufficient to say that the two modes of treating human maladies are essen tially distinct, and based upon different views of the nature and causes of diseases, their appro priate remedies, and the modes of applying them." Bradbury v. Bardin, 34 Conn. 453. ECIIIVAIN. In French marine law. The clerk of a ship. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 11, s. 3, no. 2.