Ecclesia

I In English law. A church; a place of religious worship; a parsonage, the living or beneflce. Ecclesia ecclesise decimas solvere non debet: the church ought not to pay tithes to the church. Ecclesia magis favendum est quam. persona: the church is more to be favored than the parson. Ecclesia non moritnr: the church does not die.

Lat. An assembly. A Christian assembly; a church. A place of religious worship. Spelman. Ecclesia ecclesiae decimas solvere non debet. Cro. Eliz. 479. A church ought not to pay tithes to a church. Ecclesia est domus mansionalis Omnipotentis Dei. 2 Inst. 164. The church is the mansion-house of the Omnipotent God. Ecclesia est infra aetatem et in custodia domini regis, qui tenetur jura et hereditates ejusdem manu tenere et defendere. 11 Coke, 49. The church is under age, and in the custody of the king, who is bound to uphold and defend its rights and inheritances. Ecclesia fungitur vice minoris; meliorem conditionem suam facere potest, deteriorem nequaquam. Co. Litt. 341. The church enjoys the privilege of a minor; it can make its own condition better, but not worse. Ecclesia non moritur. 2 Inst. 3. The church does not die. Ecclesiae magis favendum est quam personae. Godol. Eccl. Law, 172. The church is to be more favored than the parson.

/. A church; a parsonage. Ecclesia ecclesise decimas solvere non debet: the church ought not to pay tithes to the church. Ecclesia non moritur the church does not die. Ecclesiastical law: the law administered by the English ecclesiastical courts, now applying chiefly to church matters. It is derived largely from the canon and civil law.

Lat. [from Gr. ekklesia, from ekkaleo, to call out; L. Fr. esglise.] In English law. A church; a place of religious worship, (templum, seu domus qua fideles conveniunt, ritus divinos celebraturi.) Spelman. Called by Lord Coke "the dwelling house of Almighty God;" (ecclesia est domus mansionalis Omnipotentis Dei,) 2 Inst. 164. See Church. A parsonage. F. N. B. 32 H. That is, the living or benefice. Bract. fol. 62. Bracton says the common people in his time used ecclesia, which properly denoted the material building (ex lignis et lapidibus,) in the sense of advowson or right of presentation, and that it was so construed propter eorum simplicitatem. Id. ibid. Id. fol. 95. Ekklesia was used among the ancient Greeks, as curia and senatus among the Romans, to denote a public assembly (pro coetu et congregatione) as well as the place of meeting itself (pro loco in quem convenitur.) Spelman. See Calvin's Lex. Jur. Ecclesia non moritur. The church does not die. 2 Inst. 3. Ecclesia magis favenda est quam persona. The church is more to be favored than the parson. Godb. Rep. 172.