text:  Do we mean then that a "call" should sink into a pure fiction of ceremony like the English _conge-d'elire_ addressed to a dean and chapter calling on them to elect a bishop when all the world knows that already the see has been filled by a nomination from the crown? Not at all; a _moral_ weight will still attach to the "call " though no legal coercion: and what is chiefly important all those _doubts_ be removed by express legislation which could not but arise between a practice pointing sometimes in one direction and sometimes in another between legal decisions again upholding one view whilst something very like legal prescription was occasionally pleaded for the other