Legal Specs

Definition 1

canon law. A license, an authority. For example, the ordinary
having the disposal of all seats in the nave of a church, may grant this
power, which, when it is delegated, is called a faculty, to another.


2. Faculties are of two kinds, first, when the grant is to a man and his
heirs in gross, second, when it is to a person and his heirs, as
appurtenant to a house which he holds in the parish. 1 T. R. 429, 432, 12
Co. R. 106.

Definition 2

Scotch law. Equivalent to ability or pow-er. The term
faculty is
more properly applied to a power founded on the consent of the party from
whom it springs, and not founded on property. Kames on Eq. 504.

Posted on 15 Nov 2006

The Shebaa Farms and International Law

By

Gabriel Sawma Esq.

Background

Following World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the territories of Lebanon and Syria, which were considered one single political unit prior to the War, were...

Posted on 12 Mar 2006

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By way of some background, the tax laws ...

Posted on 25 Nov 2005

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