HONORARY

As applied to public offices and other positions of responsibility or trust, this term means either that the office or title is bestowed upon the incumbent as a mark of honor or compliment, without intending to charge htm with the active discharge of the duties of the place, or else that he is to receive no salary or other compensation in money, the honor conferred by the incumbency of the office being his only reward. See Baswell v. New York, 81 N. Y. 258. In otter connections, it means attached to or growing out of some honor or dignity or honorable office, or else it imports an obligation or duty growing out of honor or trust only, as distinguished from legal accountability. Honorary canons. Those without emolument. 8 A 4 Vict c 113, S 23. Honorary fends. Titles of nobility, descendible to the eldest son, in exclusion or all the rest. 2 Bl. Comm. 56 Honorary services. In feudal law. Special services to be rendered to the king in person, characteristic of the tenure by grand serjeanty; such as to carry his banner, his sword, or the like, or to be his butler, champion or other officer, at his coronation. Litt 153; 2 Bl. Comm. 73. Honorary trustees, Trustees to preserve contingent remainders, so called because they are bound, in honor only, to decide on the most proper and prudential course. Lewin, Trusts, 408.