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Dispensation - LoveToKnow 1911 (1851 words) |
 | The dispensing power, like the legislative authority, was formerly invested in general councils and even in provincial synods; but in the West, with the gradual centralization of authority at Rome, it became ultimately vested in the pope as the supreme lawgiver of the Church. |
| Dispensations to hold benefices in plurality formed, with provisions and the papal claim to the right of direct appointment, a powerful means for extending the patronage of the Holy See and therefore its hold over the clergy, and from the 13th century onwards this abuse assumed vast proportions (Hinschius iii. |
| dispensations, andc., " for causes not being contrary or repugnant to the Holy Scriptures and laws of God," should be vested in the archbishop of Canterbury for the time being, who at his own discretion was to issue such dispensations, andc., under his seal, to the king and his subjects. |
| Dispensation (6030 words) |
| Dispensation is an act whereby in a particular case a lawful superior grants relaxation from an existing law. |
| A matrimonial dispensation is the relaxation in a particular case of an impediment prohibiting or annulling a marriage. |
| Dispensing power from public impediments in the case of pauperes or quasi-pauperes was transferred from the Dataria and the Penitentiaria to a newly established Congregation known as the Congregatio de Disciplinâ Sacramentorum. |
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