Court of peculiars
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COURT OF PECULIARS, Eng. eccl. law. The name of a court, which is a branch
of, and annexed to, the. court of arches.
2. It has jurisdiction over all those parishes dispersed through the
province of Canterbury, in the midst of other dioceses. In the other
peculiars, the jurisdiction is exercised by commissaries. 1 Phill. R. 202,
n.
3. There are three sorts of peculiars 1. Royal peculiars. 3 Phill. R.
245. 2. The second sort are those in which the bishop has no concurrent
jurisdiction, and are exempt from his visitation. 3. The third are subject
to the bishop's visitation, and liable to his superintendence and
jurisdiction. 3 Phill. R. 245; Skinn. R. 589.