Faculty

In Canon Law. A license; an authority. For example, the ordinary, having the disposal of all seats in the nave of a church, may grant this power, which when it is delegated is called a faculty, ^ another. Faculties are of two kinds: first, when the grant is to a man and his heirs in gross; second, when it Is to a person and his heirs as appurtenant to a house which he holds in the parish; 1 Term 429, 432; 12 Co. 106. In Scotch Law. Ability or power. The term faculty is more properly applied to a power founded on the consent of the party from whom It springs, and not founded on property; Karnes, Eq. 504.