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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 22 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OFFICIAL (See also:Late See also:Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. See also:apparitor, from officium, See also:office, See also:duty)  , in See also:general any holder of See also:office under the See also:state or a public See also:body . In ecclesiastical See also:law the word " See also:official " has a See also:special technical sense as applied to the official exercising a diocesan See also:bishop's See also:jurisdiction as his representative and in his name (see ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION) . The See also:title of " official See also:principal," together with that of " See also:vicar-general," is in See also:England now merged in that of " See also:chancellor " of a See also:diocese (see CHANCELLOR) .

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