Tag: Membership
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Rules
Rule Commmon Meanings In a broad, more general sense, but applied to law, a rule is a "a law or principle that operates within a particular sphere of knowledge, describing or prescribing what is possible or allowable"(1), or "control of or dominion over an area or […]
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Rules
Rule Commmon Meanings In a broad, more general sense, but applied to law, a rule is a "a law or principle that operates within a particular sphere of knowledge, describing or prescribing what is possible or allowable"(1), or "control of or dominion over an area or […]
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Execution
Introduction to Execution Execution, putting an individual to death as a legal penalty for a crime or for political or religious reasons. Sometimes, executions have been carried out by self-appointed commissions or mobs, without due process of law." (1) Resources Notes and Re…
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Execution
Introduction to Execution Execution, putting an individual to death as a legal penalty for a crime or for political or religious reasons. Sometimes, executions have been carried out by self-appointed commissions or mobs, without due process of law." (1) Resources Notes and Re…
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Unincorporated Parish
Debts, Unincorporated Parish From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Debts, Unincorporated Parish (1): In Connecticut members of an ecclesiastical society formed by voluntary association under the statutes of the State are not individually liable for the debts of such […]
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Unincorporated Parish
Debts, Unincorporated Parish From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Debts, Unincorporated Parish (1): In Connecticut members of an ecclesiastical society formed by voluntary association under the statutes of the State are not individually liable for the debts of such […]
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Factions
Factions, Authority From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Factions, Authority (1): Where two factions of a church, each claiming to be the church, try members of the other faction, a court may determine which of the factions is the authorized authority or that the action […]
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Minor
Minor (juvenile) Introduction to Minor Minor (juvenile), legal term for those under the age of majority, which varies from country to country but is usually between 18 and 21. Most civic and legal rights and duties accrue only at the age of majority: for example, the rights to vote, …
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Merits
Expelled, Merits From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Expelled, Merits (1): Mandamus can not be resorted to to restore a member regularly expelled from his church, as a court will not inquire into the merits of the case.219 Resources Notes and References Charles M. […]
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Religious Membership
Business, Religious Membership From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Business, Religious Membership (1): Unless there is some other law or rule to the contrary, the male members of the congregation over twenty-one years of age constitute the business membership of a […]
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Regular
Church, Regular From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Church, Regular (1): In church organizations those who adhere to the regular order of the church, legal and general, though a minority, are the true congregation and constitute the corporation if incorporated.128 […]
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Burial
Faith, Burial From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Faith, Burial (1): Whether a person died in the faith of the Roman Catholic Church so as to be entitled to burial in its cemetery, is not a question within the jurisdiction of civil courts, but must be decided by the […]
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Subscriptions
Incorporated, Subscriptions From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Incorporated, Subscriptions (1): The members of an incorporated poll parish are not individually liable on a judgment and execution against the corporation, excepting on the unpaid subscriptions.218 […]
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Lay
Lay Members, Appointed From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Lay Members, Appointed (1): Where the statute provides that two lay members of the corporation of a Catholic parish shall be appointed annually "by the committee of the congregation," the members of the […]
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Officers
Officers, Discipline, Property From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Officers, Discipline, Property (1): When a church society incorporates it becomes a private corporation, and the officers are bound to manage the property in the most upright and careful manner according […]