Faculty
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
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," to 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 R. 429, 432; 12 Coke, 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.
Kames, Eq. 504.
In American Colleges. The faculty is the body of instructors.