excommunication
excommunication n. 绝罚；开除教籍 一种教会惩罚，指将被惩罚者逐出教会。分为两种，前者指被惩罚者不能参加圣礼或担任圣职，惩罚程度较轻，由教会法官执行；后者针对最严重的违反教规者，被惩罚者不能与任何基督徒交往，甚至被捕入狱。如果被绝罚者认罪并忏悔，可由教会法官、主教或教皇赦免。中世纪绝罚经常被用以惩罚世俗君王，但后逐渐失效。
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excommunication
excommunication, n. Eccles. law. A sentence of censure pronounced by a spiritual court for an offense falling under ecclesiastical cognizance; expulsion from religious society or community. • In England, an excommunicated person was formerly subject to various civil disabilities, such as an inability to be a juror, to be a witness in any court, or
sequester
sequester (si-kwes-t[schwa]r), n. 1. An across-the-board cut in government spending. [Cases: States 121. C.J.S. States §§ 203, 223.] 2. A person with whom litigants deposit property being contested until the case has concluded; a sequestrator. sequester, vb. 1. To seize (property) by a writ of sequestration. [Cases: Sequestration 15. C.J.S. Sequestration §§ 15–30.] 2. To
anathema
anathema ([schwa]-nath-[schwa]-m[schwa]), n. An ecclesiastical curse that prohibits a person from receiving communion (as in excommunication) and bars the person from contact with members of the church. — anathematize, vb.
assoil
assoil ([schwa]-soyl), vb. [Law French] Hist. To acquit or absolve; to deliver from excommunication. — Also spelled assoile. — Also termed absoile; assoilyie.
aggravation
aggravation. 1. The fact of being increased in gravity or seriousness. 2. Eccles. law. A censure threatening the recipient with an increase in the penalties associated with excommunication, usu. because the recipient disre-garded an earlier sentence. • For example, a person who spurned a sentence of excommunication might be sub-jected to an anathema (a formal
excommunicato capiendo
excommunicato capiendo (eks-k[schwa]-myoo-ni-kay-toh kap-ee-en-doh). [Latin] Hist. Eccles. law. A writ that, being founded on a bishop’s certificate of excommunication, required the sheriff to arrest and imprison the defendant. • The writ issued out of chancery and was returnable to the King’s Bench. Cf. DE CONTUMACE CAPIENDO.
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legalis homo
legalis homo (l[schwa]-gay-lis hoh-moh). [Latin “lawful man”] Hist. A person who has full legal capacity and full legal rights; one who has not been deprived of any rights in court by outlawry, excommunication, or infamy. • A legalis homo was said to stand rectus in curia (“right in court”). A lawful man was able to
ban
ban, n. 1. Hist. A public proclamation or summons. • Bans dealt with a variety of matters, such as the calling to arms of a lord’s vassals or the proclamation that an offender was henceforth to be considered an outlaw. 2. Eccles. law. An authoritative ecclesiastical prohibition; an interdict or excommunication. 3. BANNS OF MATRIMONY.