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SlJfE 0/ Incidence, in Catoptrics and Dioptrics, is ufed for 

 the fine of the angle of incidence. 



Sine of Rejiedion, in Catoptrics, is ufed for the fine of the 

 angle of refleftion. 



Sine of RefraBion, in Dioptrics, is ufed for the fine of 

 the angle of refraftion. 



Sine ajfenfu capituli, in La-w, a writ that lies where a 

 bifhop, dean, prebendary, or matter of an hofpital, aliens 

 the lands holden in right of his bifhopric, deanery, houfe, 

 &c. without the aflent of the chapter or fraternity ; in 

 which cafe his fuccefibr (hall have this writ. 



SINE-CURES, are ecclefiaftical benefices, without 

 cure of fouls. Their original was as follows : The reftor 

 (with proper confent) had a power to intitle a vicar in his 

 church to ofBciate under liim ; and this was often done ; 

 and by this means, two perlons were inltituted to the fame 

 church and both to the cure of fouls, and both did aftuallv 

 ofBciate. So that however the reffors of fine-cures, by 

 having been long excufed from refidence, are in common 

 opinion difcharged from the cure of fouls, (which is the 

 reafon of the name,) and however the cure is faid in the 

 law-books to be in them Imbitualtter only ; yet in Ifriftnefs, 

 and with regard to their original inftitution, the cure is 

 in them a&ualitsr, as much as it is in the vicar. Gibf. 719. 

 Johnf. 85. 



That is to fay, where they come in by inftitution ; but 

 if the reftoi-y is a donative, the cafe is otherwife : for 

 then coming in by donation, they have not the cure of 

 fouls committed to them. And thefe are moll properly 

 fine-cures, according to the genuine fignification of the 

 word. Johnf. 85. 



No church where there is but one incumbent can pro- 

 perly be a fine-cure : and though the church being down, or 

 the parifh being become deliitute of parifhioners, the in- 

 cumbent may be thereby neceffarily acquitted from the 

 aftual performance of public duty, yet he is flill under 

 an obligation to do it, whenever a church (hall be built, and 

 there is a competent number of inhabitants ; and, in the 

 mean while, if the church be prefentative, as mod of fuch 

 churches are, the incumbent is inftituted into the cure of 

 fouls. Such benefices are rather depopulations than fine- 

 cures ; and it will be proper for the new incumbent to 

 read the thirty-nine articles, and the liturgy, in the 

 church-yard, &c. and to do whatever other incumbents 

 ufually do. 



But a reftory, or portion of it, may properly be a fine- 

 cure, if there be a vicar under the reAor, endowed and 

 charged with the cure ; in which cafe it does not come 

 within the ftatute of pluralities, 21 Hen. VIII. c. 13. 



Here, therefore, no difpenfation is nccefTary to hold the 

 fine-cure with a former living ; nor need the incumbent read 

 the articles, or divine fervice, as required by 13 Eliz. c. 12. 

 which extends only to a benefice with cure. 



A fine-cure donative wants no inftitution and induflioD, 

 but one prefentative muil have both, efpecially if it confift 

 in glebe and tithes, and not in a portion of mouey ; but 

 the inftitution mull not run in curam animarvm, but in reSo- 

 r tarn. Jive portienem reBoria Je A. B. 5cc. 



By the above-mentioned ftatute (21 Hen. VIII.) not only 

 prebends, and reftories with vicarages endowed, but dean- 

 eries and archdeaconries are declared to be benefices without 

 cure. 



SINE DIE, in Law. When judgment is given againft 

 the plaintiff, he is faid to be in mifericordia pro falfo claviore 

 fuo ; and for the defendant, it is faid, eat indefine die ; i. e. 

 he is difmiffed the court. 



The phrafe i* alfo ufed in parliament, for the adjourn- 

 ment 



