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OFFICIAL		civil and canon laws. In the ancient civil law, the person who was the minister of, or attendant upon a magistrate, was called the official.   2. In the canon law, the person to whom the bishop generally commits the charge of his spiritual jurisdiction, bears this name. Wood's Inst. 30, 505; Merl. Repert. h. t.
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