In ecclesiastical law. An officer in cathedral churches whosupervised the regular performance of divine service, and prescribed the particularduties of each person in the choir.

See ABEREMUBDEK.

In criminal law and medical jurisprudence. Drunkenness; alcoholic intoxication.Com. v. Whitney, 11 Cusli. (Mass.) 479.Ecce modo minim, quod fcemina fert breve regis, non nominando virum, conjunctumrobore legis. Co. Litt. 1326. Behold, indeed,

In criminal law and medical jurisprudence. Personal or individualpeculiarities of mind and disposition which markedly distinguish the subject from theordinary, normal, or average types of men, but do not amount to mental

In English law. A body corporate, erected by St. 6 & 7 Wm. IV. c. 77. empowered to suggest measures conducive to theefficiency of the established church, to be ratified by orders

See CORPORATION

In New England. A church court or tribunal, having functions partly judicial andpartly advisory, appointed to determine questions relating to church discipline,orthodoxy, standing of ministers, controversies between ministers and their churches,differences and

The body of jurisprudence administered by theecclesiastical courts of England; derived, in large measure, from the canon and civil law.As now restricted, it applies mainly to the affairs, and the doctrine, discipline,

The attorney, proctor, or advocate of a corporation. Episcoporum ecdi- ci; bishops’ proctors; church lawyers. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 65.

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,

In French law. A municipal officer corresponding with alderman orburgess, and having in some instances a civil jurisdiction in certain causes of trifling importance.

In medical jurisprudence. The constant and senseless repetition of particular words or phrases, recognized as a sign or symptom of insanity or of aphasia.

In French marine law. Stranding. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 12, s. 13, no. 1.

In medical jurisprudence. Puerperal convulsions; a convulsive seizure which sometimessuddenly attacks a woman in labor or directly after, generally attended by unconsciousnessand occasionally by mental aberration.

In medicine. That system followed by physicians who selecttheir modes of practice and medicines from various schools. Webster.”Without professing to understand much of medical phraseology, we suppose thatthe terms ‘allopathic practice’ and

In French marine law. The clerk of a ship. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. & 11, s. 3, no. 2.

General; universal; as an ecumenical council. Groesbeeck v. Dunscomb, 41 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 344.

In Saxon law. The offense of hedge-breaking. Obsolete.

In old records. Buildings.

A positive law promulgated by the sovereign of a country, and having referenceeither to the whole land or some of its divisions, but usually relating to affairs ofstate. It differs from a