Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Ecclesiastical Courts at Doctors' Commons: And in the High Court of Delegates, Page 55, Volume 3

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J. Butterworth and son, and J. Cooke, Dublin, 1827 - Ecclesiastical law
 

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Page 272 - THAT person which by open denunciation of the Church is rightly cut off from the unity of the Church, and excommunicated, ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faithful, as an Heathen and Publican, until he be openly reconciled by penance, and received into the Church by a Judge that hath authority thereunto.
Page 87 - Act made and passed in the fifty-ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled, An Act to amend the Laws for the Relief of the Poor...
Page 286 - Because some things essential to this Sacrament may happen to be omitted through fear or haste, in such times of extremity ; therefore I demand further of you, With what matter was this Child baptized...
Page 346 - ... giddy revolutions that are perpetually varying the modes and fashions that belong to lighter circumstances in human life. That a body should be carried in a state of naked exposure would be a real offence to the living, as well as an apparent indignity to the dead. Some coverings have been deemed necessary in all civilized and Christian countries; but chests containing the bodies, and descending into the grave along with them, and there remaining in decay, do not plead the same degree of necessity...
Page 288 - Priest's questions* as that it cannot appear that the Child was baptized with Water, In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, (which are essential parts of Baptism...
Page 432 - Evans, notwithstanding her coverture, by any deed or deeds, writing or writings, with or without power of revocation, to be sealed and delivered by her in the presence of and attested by two or more credible witnesses, or by her last will and testament in writing...
Page 286 - And if the Minister shall find, by the answers of such as bring the Child, that all things were done as they ought to be : then shall he not Christen the Child again...
Page 285 - I CERTIFY you, that according to the due and prescribed Order of the Church, at such a time and at such a place, before divers witnesses, I baptized this Child.
Page 76 - That in case the Rector or Vicar or Perpetual Curate shall not be present, the Persons so assembled in pursuance of such Notice shall forthwith nominate and appoint, by Plurality of Votes...
Page 342 - ... cannot affect the present case. The only persons who could hereafter raise this question would be the corporation itself, which, being present, is bound by this decision. But the principal distinction is, that this is not a suit for the specific performance of a contract, but a special case, where both parties have agreed to take the opinion of the Court on the facts stated. The Court is bound to form and express its opinion. I have formed mine, and I declare it to be, that the consent of the...

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