ecclesiastical society

American  

noun

1. (in Congregational churches) a legal corporation with power to sue and be sued and to administer all of the temporalities of the church.

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ecclesiastical society

But by naming Tertullian we suggest one view, at least, of the ecclesiastical society which Origen would meet when he visited Rome.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

In 1712, the town was incorporated, which gave it the power to tax the inhabitants to support a minister, and the place became thereby an ecclesiastical society.

From The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907 Address Delivered by Daniel Davenport, of Bridgeport, Conn. by Daniel Davenport

These things marked Velletri at once as a member of an ecclesiastical society.

From The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II by Jules Lermina

Constitution, Subsequent Laws.—An ecclesiastical society formed before the adoption of the state constitution is not by that constitution and subsequent laws concerning religious societies divested of its legal character.125 69.

From The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law by Charles M. Scanlan

With neither Presbyterian nor Jesuit was the separation complete, for the simple reason that each had a secret conviction that the ecclesiastical society was at bottom the superior.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski

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