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The judge in charge, the judge who is currently managing the courtroom, either alone or among a panel of other judges. … [Read more...] about PRESIDING JUDGE

v. In English ecclesiastical law. To offer a clerk to the bishop of the diocese, to be instituted. 1 Bl. Comm. 389. In criminal law. To And or represent judicially; used of the official act of a grand jury when they take notice of a crime or offense from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of Indictment laid before them. In the law of negotiable instruments. … [Read more...] about PRESENT (VERB)

That which is currently enjoyed. Immediately and during one's lifetime. … [Read more...] about PRESENT ENJOYMENT

In ecclesiastical law. The act of a patron or proprietor of a living in offering or presenting a clerk to the ordinary to be instituted in the benefice. Presentation oi&ee. The office of the lord chancellor's official, the secretary of presentations, who conducts all correspondence having reference to the twelve canonries and sis hundred and fifty livings in the gift of the … [Read more...] about PRESENTATION

See ADVOWSON. … [Read more...] about PRESENTATIVE ADVOWSON