CHRIST'S SIDE - TRUTH

Key Terms

CHRISTIAN NAME

The name given at the baptism (or the faint), distinct from the gentilitius or surname.  (source: Samuel Johnson Dictionary 1755 (see GENS/gentilitius))

GENTILE

(the root of Gentilitus). One of an uncovenanted nation, one who knows not the true God;  (source: Samuel Johnson Dictionary 1755) [ Canadians have no covenant with God ]

CHRISTIAN NAME

Given name.  (source: Gage Canadian Dictionary 1983 | first published 1919)

GIVEN NAME

Christian name, your original name.  (source: Noah Webster’s Dictionary 1828)

CHRISTIAN NAME

The name given at baptism; individual name, as opposed to surname or family name.  (source: Webster's Encyclopedia of Dictionaries, New American Edition 1978)

GIFT

A thing given or bestowed; the act of giving. The righter power of bestowing.  (source: Samuel Johnson Dictionary 1755). Note: a pure gift is unconditional. The act of giving the Son. “Given” to bestow, to confer without any price or reward. 

SINDERESIS

"A natural power of the soul, set in the highest part thereof, moving and stirring it to good, and abhorring evil. And therefore sinderesis never sinneth nor erreth. And this sinderesis our Lord put in man, to the intent that the order of things should be observed. And therefore sinderesis is called by some men the 'law of reason,' [ which is conscience] for it ministereth the principles of the law of reason, that which be in every man by nature, in that he is a reasonable creature," Doct. & Stud.39.  (source: Black's Law Dictionary, 4th Edition)

SINDERESIS

In-born knowledge of the principles of moral action distinguished from syneidesis. The essence

ground or center of the soul that enters into communion with God. The spark or emanation of divinity in the soul.  [you were once a living soul, they made you into a souldire (soldier)]

FACT

A thing done; an action performed or an incident transpiring; an event or circumstance; an actual occurrence; an actual happening in time or space or an event mental or physical; that which has taken place...A fact is either a state of things, that is, an existence, or a motion, that is an event. The quality of being actual; actual existence or occurrence. Law is principle; fact is an event. Law is conceived; fact is actual. Law is a rule of duty; fact is that which has been according to or in contravention of a rule.  (source: Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edition)

FACT

(source: under “The Law of Evidence”  Black’s Law Dictionary, 4th Edition)  An actual and absolute reality as distinguished from mere supposition or opinion. A truth as distinguished from fiction or error.

The omission of the Christian name either by the plaintiff or the defendant prevents the court from acquiring jurisdiction.  (source: Bouvier’s Law Dictionary 1856)

The juristic meaning of this term does not differ from the vernacular that is spoken except in cases where it is used in opposition to the term legal and then it means preceding from or determined by physical causes or conditions as distinguished from positive enactments of law (READ “legal”) or attributable to the nature of man rather than the commands of law (READ “legal”) or based upon moral rather then legal considerations or sanctions.  (source: Black’s Law Dictionary, 4th Edition)

The period of a person’s existence considered as continuing until terminated by physical dissolution or death occurring in the course of nature; used in contradistinction to that juristic and artificial conception of life as an aggregate of legal rights or the possession (see below) of a legal personality, which could be terminated by “civil death” (q.v.), that is, that extinction of personality which resulted from entering a monastery or being attainted of treason or felony.  (source: Black’s Law Dictionary, 6th Edition)

The power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, unless by the law of nature. 1 Bl. Comm. 125. The right which nature gives to all mankind of disposing of their persons and property after the manner they judge most consistent with their happiness, on condition of their acting within the limits of the law of nature, and so as not to interfere with an equal exercise of the same rights by other men. Burlamaqui, c. 3, § 15; 1 Bl.Comm. 125. It is called by Lieber social liberty, and is defined as the protection or unrestrained action in as high a degree as the same claim of protection of each individual admits of.  (source: Black’s Law Dictionary, 4th Edition)