CLERICIS LAICOS
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[L.] Title of the famous bull of Pope Boniface VIII., 1295; severing Church property from all secular obligation, and declaring himself the one trustee of all the property held by clergy, by monastic bodies, and by universities. - Milman's Hist, of Latin Christianity, vii. 60.
By Henry Percy Smith