In Facie Ecclesiæ
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
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, 289.
Applied in Bracton to the old mode of conferring dower. Bract fol.
92; 2 Bl. Comin. 133.