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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In ecclesiastical law

A license or authority; a privilege granted by the ordinary to a man by favor and indulgence to do that which 'by law he may not do; e. g., to marry without banns, to erect a monument in a church, eta Termes de la Ley.

In Scotch law

A power founded on consent, as distinguished from a power founded on property.

2 Kames, Eq. 265.