Dean And Chapter
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In ecclesiastical law
The council of a bishop, to assist him with their advice in the religious and also in the temporal affairs of the see.
3 Coke, 75; 1 Bl. Comm. 382; Co. Litt. 103, 300; Termes de la Ley; 2 Burn, Ecc. Law, 120.