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See: board, conference, meeting CONSISTORY, ecclesiastical law. An assembly of cardinals convoked by the
pope. The consistory is public or secret. It is public, when the pope
receives princes or gives audience to ambassadors; secret, when he fills
vacant sees, proceeds to the canonization of saints, or judges and settles
certain contestations submitted to him.
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In the 1960s and 1970s the focus was most frequently diocesan, and the favored evidence was drawn from the disciplinary records of the established church or from the treasure-store of wills accumulated by the consistory courts. As the statements of witnesses in defamation cases before the consistory courts reveal, life was very public in this period, and neighbours very watchful. In the twenty-year straggle of Lord Salisbury' s daughter Emily with her husband, the Earl of Westmeath, the battered wife sought maintenance and child support in chancery, common law, and consistory courts, after the husband had imprisoned her, beaten her, taken her money, and committed numerous acts of adultery. |
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