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The Evangelical United Brethren ___MASK66___ ( EUB ) was an American Protestant ___MASK66___ formed in 1946 , by the merger of the Evangelical ___MASK66___ ( formerly the Evangelical ___MASK39___ ) and the ___MASK66___ of the United Brethren in Christ ( not to be confused with the still current ___MASK66___ of the United Brethren in Christ ( Old Constitution )). The United Brethren and the Evangelical ___MASK39___ had considered merging off and on since the early 19th century because of their common emphasis on holiness and evangelism and their common German heritage . ___MASK26___ law is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership and tenancy in real ___MASK26___ ( land as distinct from personal or movable possessions ) and in personal ___MASK26___ , within the common law legal system . In the civil law system , there is a division between movable and immovable ___MASK26___ . Movable ___MASK26___ roughly corresponds to personal ___MASK26___ , while immovable ___MASK26___ corresponds to real estate or real ___MASK26___ , and the associated rights , and obligations thereon . De jure ( ___MASK46___ , adverb ) (; Classical Latin : de iure ; ( lit . ' concerning law ') means ' a ___MASK80___ that is in accordance with law ', i . e . that is officially designated . In contrast , " de facto " ( lit . ' concerning fact '), means ' a ___MASK80___ that is true in fact , but that is not officially designated '. In law , and in ___MASK99___ , the terms " de jure " and " de facto " are used instead of ' in law ' and ' in practice ', respectively . In a legal context , " de jure " ( laws ) are contrasted to " de facto " practices , where , for example , the people obey a contract as though there were a law enforcing it , yet there is no such law . A process known as ' desuetude ' may allow " de facto " practices to replace " de jure " laws that have fallen out of favour locally . ___MASK5___ ( from ) is a codification of beliefs or a body of teachings or instructions , taught principles or positions , as the essence of teachings in a given ___MASK92___ of knowledge or ___MASK27___ ___MASK74___ . The Greek analogue is the etymology of catechism . ___MASK56___ is a generic or ___MASK62___ term for those work relations , especially in modern or early modern ___MASK86___ , in which people are employed against their ___MASK45___ by the threat of destitution , detention , violence ( including death ), compulsion , or other extreme hardship to themselves or to members of their families . The United Methodist ___MASK66___ ( UMC ) is a mainline Protestant ___MASK41___ , and a major ___MASK90___ of Methodism . In the 19th ___MASK58___ , its main predecessor  the Methodist ___MASK66___  was a leader in Evangelicalism . It was founded in 1968 in Dallas , Texas , United States , by union of the Methodist ___MASK66___ and the Evangelical United Brethren ___MASK66___ . The UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley in ___MASK100___ as well as the Great Awakening in the United States . As such , the church ' s theological orientation is decidedly Wesleyan . It embraces both liturgical and evangelical elements . It has a connexional polity , a typical ___MASK97___ of a number of Methodist denominations . The Methodist Protestant ___MASK66___ ( MPC ) is a regional Methodist ___MASK31___ in the United States . It was formed in 1828 by former members of the Methodist Episcopal ___MASK66___ , remaining Wesleyan in doctrine and worship , but adopting congregational governance . Remuneration is the compensation that one receives in ___MASK72___ for the work or services performed ; not to be confused with giving ( away ), or donating , or the act of providing to . A number of complementary benefits , however , are increasingly popular remuneration mechanisms . Remuneration is one ___MASK13___ of reward management . The Methodist Episcopal ___MASK66___ ( MEC ) was the first Methodist ___MASK41___ founded in the United States . In the early 19th ___MASK58___ , it was the largest Protestant ___MASK41___ in the U . S . The Methodist Episcopal ___MASK66___ existed from 1784 until 1939 , when it merged with the Methodist Episcopal ___MASK66___ , South and the Methodist Protestant ___MASK66___ to form the Methodist ___MASK66___ . In 1968 , the Methodist ___MASK66___ merged with the Evangelical United Brethren ___MASK66___ to form the present - ___MASK11___ United Methodist ___MASK66___ . In the abstract , ___MASK26___ is that which belongs to or with something , whether as an attribute or as a component of said thing . In the context of this article , ___MASK26___ is one or more components ( rather than attributes ), whether physical or incorporeal , of a person ' s estate ; or so belonging to , as in being owned by , a person or jointly a group of people or a legal entity like a corporation or even a society . ( Given such meaning , the word ___MASK26___ is uncountable , and as such , is not described with an indefinite article or as plural .) Depending on the nature of the ___MASK26___ , an owner of ___MASK26___ has the right to consume , alter , share , redefine , rent , mortgage , pawn , sell , exchange , transfer , give away or destroy it , or to exclude others from doing these things , as well as to perhaps abandon it ; whereas regardless of the nature of the ___MASK26___ , the owner thereof has the right to properly use it ( as a durable , mean or factor , or whatever ), or at the very least exclusively keep it . The Methodist ___MASK66___ was the official name adopted by the Methodist ___MASK41___ formed in the United States by the reunion on ___MASK79___ 10 , 1939 , of the northern and southern factions of the Methodist Episcopal ___MASK66___ ( which had split earlier in 1844 over the issue of ___MASK75___ and the impending Civil War in America . During the War Between the States of 1861 - 1865 , the ___MASK41___ was known briefly as The Methodist Episcopal ___MASK66___ in the Confederate States of America ) along with the earlier separated Methodist Protestant ___MASK66___ of 1828 . Its book of liturgy used for the reunited ___MASK41___ was `` The Book of Worship for ___MASK66___ and Home '' , editions of which were published in 1945 and later revised in 1965 . They had two official hymnals , the first being `` The Methodist Hymnal '' , published in 1935 and 1939 by the same three church bodies that later became The Methodist ___MASK66___ . It was replaced in 1966 by `` The Book of Hymns '' . The Methodist ___MASK66___ then later merged with the Evangelical United Brethren ___MASK66___ on April 23 , 1968 , to form `` The United Methodist ___MASK66___ '' with its headquarters , offices and publishing houses in Nashville , Tennessee . Over the next few years most of the individual local congregations in the two bodies under the names of `` Methodist ___MASK66___ '' or `` Evangelical United Brethren ___MASK66___ '' changed the latter part of their name to : `` -- -- United Methodist ___MASK66___ '' . The new U . M . C . became one of the largest and most widely spread across the nation , denominations in America . De facto is a Latin expression that means " in fact , in reality , in actual existence , ___MASK35___ , or possession , as a matter of fact " ( literally " of fact "). In ___MASK32___ , it often means " in practice but not necessarily ordained by ___MASK32___ " or " in practice or actuality , but not officially designated or established ". It is commonly used in contrast to "" ( which means " according to ___MASK32___ "; literally " from ___MASK32___ "), when referring to matters of ___MASK32___ , governance , or technique ( such as standards ) that are found in the common experience as created or developed without or contrary to a regulation . When discussing a legal situation , " de jure " designates what the ___MASK32___ says , while " de facto " designates what happens in practice . The Methodist Episcopal ___MASK66___ , South , or Methodist Episcopal ___MASK66___ South ( MEC , S ), was the Methodist ___MASK41___ resulting from the 19th - ___MASK58___ split over the issue of ___MASK75___ in the Methodist Episcopal ___MASK66___ ( MEC ). Disagreement on this issue had been increasing in strength for decades between churches of the North and South ; in 1844 it resulted in a schism at the General Conference of the MEC held in Louisville , Kentucky . ___MASK75___ is , the strictest sense of the term , any ___MASK74___ in which principles of ___MASK26___ law are applied to people , allowing individuals to own , buy and sell other individuals , as a " de jure " form of ___MASK26___ . A slave is unable to withdraw unilaterally from such an arrangement and works without remuneration . Many scholars now use the term chattel slavery to refer to this specific sense of legalised , " de jure " slavery . In a broader sense , however , the word slavery may also refer to any situation in which an individual is " de facto " forced to work against his or her will . Scholars also use the more generic terms such as unfree labour or forced labour , to refer to such situations . However  and especially under slavery in broader senses of the word  slaves may have some rights and / or protections , according to laws and / or customs .