OFF 
The other, called oficialis _ as ers his jurifdic- 
tion foris, &P extra civitatem, is appointed by the bifhop 
when the aoe is very lar atge 5 ; ae acertain extent of 
ee affigned him, Hee he refides 
Thi cea ia but a limited jurifdiGtion, though he have 
aloe itatem caufarum, and cei it in the bifhop’s name. 
Ou s tute-law calls him comm 
to 
felts. 
Thefe 
do not m 
contro of the ie a us decretalium, it is pretty apparent 
the cuftom had not its rife till the end of the cine cen- 
tury. 
ocefs of time i function was divided into two ; 
and the “title official given to him with whom the bifhop 
entrufted the exercife ee htigious witice: ; and that of vicars 
general, or grand vicars, to thofe who had the voluntary 
r of officials was foon exceffively multiplied ; 
and not only bihops, but chapters and archdeacons, would 
have their officia 
The offici ae ‘a degrees, had drawn to their cognizance 
ae jurifdiGion mot of the civil yeaah ; till they were taken 
ut of their hands by appeals, & 
* OFFICIAL is alfo ufed, in our : laws, for a deputy ap- 
pointed by a n archdeacon, or the executing of his jurif- 
: and ie ftandeth in the fame relation to the arch- 
ALTY, the court or jurifdi€tion of which an 
official is oe 
The praétice of officialties is now reduced into a little 
compafs ; and aétions of promifes, and diflolutions of mar- 
riages, are the principal things tranfa¢ted therein. 
OFFICIARIIS zou faciendis, vel amovendis, a writ 
saga to the magiltrates of a corporation, requiring them 
not to m an officer, or ut one out of 
prefcriptions. 
The offcinal fi fi nal are cl amie among us, by the Col- 
lege of Phyfician d the ner of m akin ng the compo- 
fitions is deed in nie Die aoe: 
OFFIC 0, Suen ab. See SUSPENSION. 
a Ex. See Ex Officio, INFORMATION, and 
TH. 
Gunes, Quod clerici non eigantur in. See Quo 
OFFIDA, in Geography, a town of Ixaly, in ie mar- 
.E. of Ancona. 
quifate of Ancona; 42 miles 
ING, or Orrin, in the Sea a that part of 
the fea that is at a good diftance from where there 
is al a water, and no need of a bil to vrondue the fhip 
ood — without as or 
towards the fea, they fay, that fhip is in the offing. 
OFFOLANKA, a * Geography, one of the fmaller 
Friendly iflands. S. lat. 19° 35’. ong. 185° 31/ 
‘OFFRA, a town noe Africa, on the Slave coait, avhiete 
iat ae and Dutch have a factory; 3 miles S.W. of 
ahim. 
OFF 
OFFRANVILLE, a town of France, in the depart- 
ment of the Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftri&t of Dieppe ; 3 miles S. of Dieppe. The place 
contains 1520, ee the canton 1 lee ogi on a ter- 
ritory of 190 kiliometres, in 34 ¢ 
OFF-RECKONING, in 
ECKONING. 
ae in Gardening, a fort of fucker, or {mall 
young plant, iffuing from the fides of the main root of dif- 
aia forts of perennial plants, whether bulbous, tuberous, 
a aaa by means of which they are often readily 
d 
Mi ‘tary. Teenguage: See 
nere 
The method of increafing by off-fets is applicable, in gene- 
ral, to all forts of bulbous and tuberous-rooted perennial 
plants, fuch as tulips, anemones, &c. in which there are 
mall bulbs, or tubers, that on being planted out afford 
ae of exatly the fame kind as thofe from which they 
are taken, and which, after having one or two years’ growth, 
flower, produce feed, and furnifh a fupply of off-fets in their 
um, 
In the vaft tribe of fibrous-rooted perennial plants, moft 
forts afford a progeny of this fort, for propagating and per- 
petuating their re{pective {pecies and varieties, both in the 
&c. and in fome efculents, 
fiderably in th 3 b merous forts of the 
oft beautiful flowering perennials are multiplied. Off-fets 
e, therefo ly and certain me- 
r 
thod of propagation, but one by which there is a certainty 
of fae the al d forts continued, whether fpecies or 
particular varietie 
eedlings new varieties are a aoa 
gained, the roots of whe furnifh off-fets, by which they 
are increafe 
The feparating off-fets may be sik iaage in fome forts 
every year, in others once in two or three years, according 
to the forts, and the increafe of off fets afforded by the 
main roots. 
e proper eee for feparating or taking them off, in 
ee Liar and many tuberous-rooted pl 
th 
6 
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Pp 
oc 
cr 
= 
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Ps 
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ao 
a 
forts, having had their ful! growth, affume an sara ftate, 
drawing little nourifhment from the earth for a weeks. 
It is alfo the only proper period for moving all the bulbous 
kinds in particular, both to feparate off-fets and tranfplant 
ea San roots, or to take them up for keeping a while. 
ee 
or two, ike ing to their e8 in this fituation to get 
then be tranfplanted, at the proper feafon, where 
they are to continue, as ng ae as ne bulbous and 
as Gis eden plants. See Buzs UB 
An ets of Peas perennia ial plants, may 
either be flipped “off from the fides of the main roots as they 
fland in the ground, or the roots may be who ly taken up, 
and parted into as many flips as there are off-fets properly 
farnithed with fibres. In this fort, the prope r — is the 
autumn, when their ftalks decay, or earl e f{pring, 
before new ones begin to fhoot forth ; ceih fae pd 
for 
year 
Pa iis 
