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(Lat. from tondere, to shavei or clip). In old English law. A shaving or polling; the having the crown of the head, shaven; tonsure. One of the peculiar badges of a clerk or clergyman. Habitus et tonsura clericalis, the clerical habit and tonsure without which no man originally could be admitted to the privilege of clergy. 2 Hale, P. C. 372; 4 Bl. Comm. 366; Nov. 5, c. 2.
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(Lat. from tondere, to shavei or clip). In old English law. A shaving or polling; the having the crown of the head, shaven; tonsure. One of the peculiar badges of a clerk or clergyman. Habitus et tonsura clericalis, the clerical habit and tonsure without which no man originally could be admitted to the privilege of clergy. 2 Hale, P. C. 372; 4 Bl. Comm. 366; Nov. 5, c. 2.
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