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See also:MONITION, or ADMONITION (See also:Lat. monere, to admonish) , in See also:English ecclesiastical See also:law, an See also:order requiring or admonishing the See also:person complained of to do something specified in the See also:monition, or appear and show cause to the contrary, " under See also:pain of the law and See also:penalty thereof." It is the lightest See also:form of ecclesiastical censure, whether to clergymen or laymen, but disobedience to it, after it has been duly and regularly served, entails the penalties of contempt of See also:court . Monitions of a disciplinary See also:character are either for the purpose of enforcing See also:residence on a See also:benefice, or in connexion with suits to restrain See also:ritual alleged to be unlawful . |
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