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PARLIAMENTUM

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Latin: A legislative body in general or the English parliament in particular. Parliamentnm diabolicnm. A parliament held at Coventry, 38 Hen. VI., wherein Edward, Earl of March, (afterwards King Edward IV.,) and many of the chief nobility were attainted, was so called; but the acts then made were annulled by the succeeding parliament. Jacob. Parliamentnm indoctnm. Unlearned or lack learning parliament. A name given to a parliament held at Coventry in the sixth year of Henry IV. under an ordinance requiring that no lawyer should be chosen knight, citizen, or burgess; “by reason whereof,” says Sir Edward Coke, this parliament was fruitless, and never a good law made thereat” 4 Inst. 48; 1 Bl. Comm. 177. Parliamentnm insannm. A parliament assembled at Oxford, 41 Hen. III., so styled from the madness of their proceedings, and because the lords came with armed men to it, and contentions grew very high between the king, lords, and commons, whereby many extraordinary things were done. Jacob. Parliamentnm re ligiosornm. In most convents there has been a common room into which the brethren with-, drew for conversation; conferences there being termed “parliamentum.” Likewise, the societies of the two temples, or inns of court, call that assembly of the benchers or governors wherein they confer upon the common affairs of their several houses a “parliament” Jacob. Parochia est locns qno degit popnlns alicnjns ecclesise. 5 Coke, 67. A parish is a place in which the population of a certain church resides.

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