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In English ecclesiastical law. A jurisdiction or tribunal belonging to the archbishop. It does not hold pleas in any sults, but creates rights to pews, monuments, and particular places, and modes of burial. It has also various powers under 25 Hen. VIII. c. 21, in granting 11· censes or different descriptions, as a license to marry, a faculty to erect an organ in a parish church, to level a church-yard, to remove bodies previously buried. 4 Inst. 337. FACULTY, In ecclesiastical law, A license or authority; a privilege granted by the ordinary to a man by favor and indulgence to do that which by law he may not do; e. g., to marry without banns, ·to erect a monument 1n a church, etc. Termes de. la. Ley. In Scotch law. A power founded on consent, as distinguished from a power G founded on property. 2 Karnes, Eq. 265. FAOULTY,OF A [s. 483]