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

In Scotch law. A citation published at the market-cross ofEdinburgh, and pier and shore of Leith. Used against foreigners not within the kingdom,but having a landed estate there, and against natives out

Thirteen constitutions or laws of this prince, found in mosteditions of the Corpus Juris Civilis, after the Novels. Being confined to matters of policeIn the provinces of the empire, they are of

In the Roman law. An edict; a mandate, or ordinance. An ordinance, orlaw, enacted by the emperor without the senate; belonging to the class of constitutionesprincipis. Inst. 1, 2. 6. An edict

The annual edict or system of rules promulgated by a Roman praetorimmediately upon assuming his office, setting forth the principles by which he wouldbe guided in determining causes during his term of

The perpetual edict. A compilation or system of law in fifty books,digested by Julian, a lawyer of great eminence under the reign of Adrian, from thepnetor’s edicts and other parts of the

An edict or system of rules for the administration of justice, similar to theedict of the pnetor, put forth by the proconsuls and propraetors in the provinces of theRoman Empire. Mackeld. Rom.