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FACULTY (through the See also:French, from the See also:Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another See also:form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the See also:original meaning) , See also:power or capacity of mind or See also:body for particular kinds of activity, feeling, &c. In the See also:early See also:history of See also:psychology the See also:term was applied to various See also:mental processes considered as causes or conditions of the mind—a treatment of " class concepts of mental phenomena as if they were real forces producing these phenomena " (G. F. Stout, See also:Analytic Psychology, vol. i. p. 17). In See also:medieval Latin facultas was used to translate Suvaµis in the Aristotelian application of the word to a See also:branch of learning or knowledge, and thus it is particularly applied to the various departments of knowledge as taught in a university and to the body of teachers of the particular See also:art or See also:science taught. The See also:principal " faculties " in the medieval See also:universities were See also:theology, See also:canon and See also:civil See also:law, See also:medicine and arts (see UNIVERSITIES). A further See also:extension of this use is to the body of members of any particular profession. In law, " faculty " is a See also:dispensation or See also:licence to do that which is not permitted by the See also:common law. The word in this sense is used only in ecclesiastical law. A faculty maybe granted to be ordained See also:deacon under twenty-three years of See also:age; to hold two livings at once (usually called a licence or dispensation, but granted under the See also:seal of the See also:office of faculties; see See also:BENEFICE); to be married at any See also:place or See also:time (usually called a See also:special licence; see See also:MARRIAGE; LICENCE); to See also:act as a See also:notary public (q.v.). Any alteration in a See also:church, such as an addition or diminution in the fabric or the utensils or ornaments of the church, cannot strictly be made without the legal See also:sanction of the See also:ordinary, which can only be expressed by the issue of a faculty.

So a faculty would be required for a vault, for the removal of a body, for the purpose of erecting monuments, for alterations in a parsonage See also:

house, for See also:brick See also:graves, for the See also:apportionment of a seat, &c. Cathedrals, however, are exempt from the See also:necessity for a faculty before making alterations in the fabric, utensils or ornaments. The See also:court of faculties is the court of the See also:archbishop for granting faculties. It is a court in which there is no litigation or holding of pleas. Its See also:chief officer is called the See also:master of faculties, and he is one and the same with the See also:judge of the court of See also:arches. Attached to the court of faculties are a registrar and See also:deputy registrars, a chief clerk and See also:record-keeper, and a seal keeper. In See also:Scotland the society of See also:advocates of the court of session, and See also:local bodies of legal practitioners, are described as faculties.

End of Article: FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

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