It once referred to the leaden seal on a Papal document; now it refers to the document itself
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Papal bull - Wikipedia  A papal bull is a particular type of letters patent or charter issued by a Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. It is named after the lead seal (bulla) that was appended to the end in order ... At an epoch when there was much fabrication of such documents, those who procured bulls from Rome wished to secure that the...
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What is an Encyclical? - Papal Encyclicals Online  A Papal Encyclical is the name typically given to a letter written by a Pope to a ... usage has confined the term almost exclusively to certain papal documents which ... all the bishops of Christendom, or at least to all those in one particular country, ... by the papal chancery in the shape of bulls authenticated with leaden seals,...
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Evergreen Exhibitions | Vatican Splendors Glossary - Evergreen ...  May 3, 2015 ... Chicano Now & ... The Catholic Church counts twenty-one ecumenical or universal councils from ... Martyrdom refers to the act of someone losing their life for the faith. ... the Basilica of Saint Peter is also referred to as the Scavi ('Excavations'). ... The leaden seals with which papal and royal documents were...
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Handbook for Bible Students, Page 61 -- Ellen G. White Writings  In one age he might be born a man, in another a wild beast ravening in the forest; ... the leaden seals with which papal and royal documents were authenticated in the ... from designating the seal, was eventually attached to the document itself. ... defined to be an apostolic letter with a leaden seal, to which one may add that...
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Bulls and Briefs - New Advent  ... defined to be "an Apostolic letter with a leaden seal," to which one may add that in ... The now consecrated phrase "salutatem et apostolicam benedictionem" hardly ... As the letter directs that the document itself is to be returned to the papal ... All these documents at one time had leaden seals appended to them, though in...
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Seal (contract law) - Wikipedia  In the law, a seal affixed to a contract or other legal instrument has had special legal ... sigilli meaning "place of the seal"). Notwithstanding their reduced significance, seals are still used on contracts, usually in the impression on paper form.
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Free Flashcards about LEGAL TERMS - StudyStack  "L.S." ON A DOCUMENT INDICATES THE SPOT WHERE THIS OBJECT IS TO BE AFFIXED, LEGAL SEAL. THIS DISTRICT OF A BAILIFF MIGHT BE YOUR...
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The Great Seal - US Department of State  to give visible evidence of a sovereign nation and a ... were later adopted in the final seal: the Eye of Providence and the date of ... reverse side of the seal, and the shield and Latin motto, E Pluribus Unum (Out of ... In his design of the seal's reverse, Thomson retained the pyramid with ..... More of the body appears above the.
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Postage stamps and postal history of Vatican City - Wikipedia  The Vatican post office has operated its own postal service and issued its own postage stamps ... Contents. [hide]. 1 First stamps; 2 Today; 3 See also; 4 References and sources; 5 External links ... On 1 April 1933, the Vatican issued its first semi-postal stamps, a set of four marking the 24th Holy Year. On 31 May of the same...
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final secondary school exam, 1863, short for abiturium, from Mod ...  Jul 30, 2013 ... Amendment alteration of a writ or bill (to remove its faults) is 1607. ..... Battuere to beat, an old word in Latin, but almost certainly ..... Eng., from bob-o-Lincoln (1774), imitative of the call of the bird. ..... Clean in the sense of innocent is from c.1300; that of not lewd is from ...... But it's likely that the M.E..
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The Pope and the Magna Carta - Hope of Israel Website  ... law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and ... It was there on June 15th, 1215, that the Barons met and forced King John to sign ... issued a Bull purporting to annul the document that is the forerunner of the ... The Bull of Pope Innocent III ("Etsi Kavissimus") condemned and annulled...
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Freemasonry 219 cryptic masonry - SlideShare  Aug 30, 2014 ... Tim two virtues which it 86 CRYPTIC nasoxnr. the necessity of their ... This word, which is most generally 56 cnvrno nusomzr. ..... It is derived from the Latin org/ pticus, which means ' eubterramean or ..... sometimes called the  Shield of David,  and sometimes the Seal of; 29. ... Let brotherly love continue.
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Great Seal of the United States - Wikipedia  The Great Seal of the United States is used to authenticate certain documents issued by the ... The phrase is used both for the physical seal itself (which is kept by the U.S. ... From the eagle's perspective, it holds a bundle of 13 arrows in its left talon, ...... (Lewis and Short, A Latin Dictionary: Founded on Andrews' Edition of...
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Magna Carta receives royal seal | HISTORY  Following a revolt by the English nobility against his rule, King John put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, or "Great Charter" on this day in 1215. The document...
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Exploring the encyclical | Thinking Faith: The online journal of the ...  Dec 2, 2009 ... Pope Benedict XVI issued his third encyclical letter, Caritas in ... Caritas in Veritate(henceforth 'CV') aspires to reach all these people, being ... (This usage, now standard, was a dramatic innovation of John XXIII's Pacem in Terris of 1963, ... 'the principle around which the Church's social doctrine turns' (.6),...
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Only U.S. copy of Magna Carta treated at Archives - USATODAY.com  Jul 19, 2011 ... It is one of 17 known handwritten copies of the text that established a tradition ... "We consider it part of the history of the document, the fading, we want to ... Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot first purchased the document from a British family for $1.5 million in 1984 when it was last conserved at a Virginia lab.
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American Heritage Dictionary Entry: endorsed  To write one's signature on the back of (an instrument) to transfer the rights ... [Middle English endosen, to sign (a document, originally by writing on its back), ... from Medieval Latin indorsre : Latin in-, upon, in; see EN-1 + Latin dorsum, back.] ... Check out our blog, updated regularly, for new words and revised definitions,...
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Papal coats of arms - Wikipedia  Papal coats of arms are the personal coat of arms of popes of the Catholic Church. These have ... was Pope Leo X in 1513. In the 16th and 17th century, heraldists also made up fictitious coats of arms for earlier popes, especially of the 11th and 12th centuries. This became more restrained by the end of the 17th century.
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What is the ORIGIN of the Pope's title? - The Bible Study Site  When was the title of POPE first used? ... One of the foundational dogmas of the Catholic church is that the current Pope, in an ... line of 256 popes, since 1903, going all the way back to (and including) Peter. ... Map of the Roman Empire at its height ... It was JAMES, one of the other apostles, who not only renders a final...
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What E Pluribus Unum Means - Today I Found Out  Mar 22, 2012 ... Thus, E pluribus unum simply means from many, one or out of many, one. ... E pluribus unum was officially replaced as the motto of the U.S. when, ... the Great Seal, while not actually cut on the physical seal itself, there is...
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The Role for Magna Carta in America in 2015 - Heritage Foundation  Jul 27, 2015 ... The doctrine that we now call the rule of lawthat is, the principle that [a]bove ... Article 39 of Magna Carta was the parent of the Due Process Clause that is ... culmination of a long series of events that began in 1189 when John became ..... [63] Americans should celebrate that document no less than we...