In facie ecclesiae
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In the face of the church. A term applied in the law of England to marriages, which are required to be solemnized in a parish church or public chapel, unless by dispensation or license.
1 Bl. Comm. 439; 2 Steph. Comm. 288, 259.
Applied in Bracton to the old mode of conferring dower. Bract. fol.
92; 2 Bl. Comm. 133,