Faculty
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[Lat. facultas.] Power or ability.
In Scotch law
A power founded on consent, as distinguished from a power founded on property.
2 Kames' Equity, 265.
In English ecclesiastical law. A privilege or special dispensation, granted to a man by favor and indulgence, to do that which, by law, he could not do.
Tomlins.
Termes de la ley.
Cowell.
Facultas probationum non est angustanda. The power of proofs [right of offering or giving testimony] is not to be narrowed.
4 Inst. 279.