COURT OF FACULTIES

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
COURT OF FACULTIES, Eng. eccl. law. The name of a court which belongs to the 
archbishop, in which his officer, called magister ad facultates, grants 
dispensations to marry, to eat flesh on days prohibited, or to ordain a 
deacon under age, and the like. 4 Inst. 337. 
    

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