Crossword-Solution: PRAEMUNIRE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Praemunire | n. | The offense of introducing foreign authority into England, the penalties for which were originally intended to depress the civil power of the pope in the kingdom. |
| Praemunire | n. | The writ grounded on that offense. |
| Praemunire | n. | The penalty ascribed for the offense of praemunire. |
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| WRIT charging sheriff to summon person accused of asserting or maintaining papal jurisdiction (Eng.) | 1 answer |
| writ | 57 answers |
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The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
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Sentences with PRAEMUNIRE (5)
Lord Cardinal, the King’s further pleasure is, Because all those things you have done of late By your power legative within this kingdom Fall into th’ compass of a _praemunire_, That therefore such a writ be sued against you To forfeit all your goods, lands, tenements, Chattels, and whatsoever, and to be Out of the King’s protection.
For we must not lose sight of the well-ascertained fact that the English queen, who at the very commencement of her reign had had her spiritual supremacy acknowledged by the Irish Parliament under pain of forfeiture, praemunire, and high-treason, insisted all along on the binding obligation of this title; and though at first she had secretly promised that this law should not be enforced against the laity, she showed by all her measures that its observance was of paramount importance in her eyes.
Early in Edward III's reign a claim was made that the king, in virtue of his anointing at coronation, could exercise spiritual jurisdiction, and the statutes of _Praemunire_ and _Provisors_ prohibited the exercise in England of the pope's powers of judicature and appointment to benefices without the royal licence, though royal connivance and popular acquiescence enabled the papacy to enjoy these privileges for nearly two centuries longer.
Others, when prevented from so doing by the penalties of _praemunire_, delegated their authority to Vicars General, who contrived to elude the provisions of the statute.
The penalty of _praemunire_ was declared in force, and, to crown the work, the celebrated "Act of Uniformity" was passed.