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Ecclesiastical Courts

In England, the collective classification of particular courts that exercised jurisdiction primarily over spiritual matters. A system of courts, held by authority granted by the sovereign, that assumed jurisdiction over matters concerning the ritual and religion of the established church, and over the rights, obligations, and discipline of the clergy.

ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. English law. Courts held by the king's authority as supreme governor of the church, for matters which chiefly concern religion.
2. There are ten courts which may be ranged under this class. 1. The Archdeacon's Court. 2. The Consistory Court. 3. The Court of Arches. 4. The Court of Peculiars. 5. The Prerogative Court. 6. The Court of Delegates, which is the great court of appeals in all ecclesiastical causes. 7. The Court of Convocation. 8. The Court of Audience. 9. The Court of Faculties. 10. The Court of Commissioners of Review.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Ecclesiastical court depositions are a highly mediated discourse, [48] and the depositions' assignment of passivity to women should perhaps be expected, since these representations of feminine behavior replicate the gender role constructed for women in conduct literature, a genre written primarily by the clergy.

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Generally the husband appeared before the chancellor of the ecclesiastical court demanding his wife's return.

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The Rev Tom Thubron, vicar of St Giles's Church in Durham City, appeared before an ecclesiastical court in his parish over complaints alleging 21 items of damage caused to the Grade I listed building.

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Introduced in the 12th century, this perfectly legal process entitled an ordained person to be tried solely by an ecclesiastical court instead of a secular one - ecclesiastical courts could not inflict capital punishment.

A far cry from Robin Hood; Highwaymen And Outlaws. By Michael Billett (Arms and Armour, pounds 12.99). Reviewed by Richard Edmonds

Conservationists told an ecclesiastical court yesterday that proposed alterations to a Victorian church would lead to the irretrievable loss of a slice of Birmingham's heritage.

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By the bull Iniunctum Nobis of 4 December 143 5 he quashed the Florentine statute that had conferred final jurisdiction in the definition of usury upon the court of the Wercanzia and had prohibited appeals to any other, even to an ecclesiastical court. He complained that such a statute was detrimental to the jurisdiction of the archbishop of Florence and of the Holy See, and he warned city officials against following this statute.

Pope Eugenius IV and Jewish money-lending in Florence: the case of Salomone di Bonaventura during the Chancellorship of Leonardo Bruni

The Archdeacon of Aston has warned an ecclesiastical court that an architecturally outstanding Victorian church in Birmingham would become redundant unless given the go-ahead for a controversial pounds 1million modernisation.

Not a prayer for old church without pounds 1m modernisation

A Birmingham vicar presented plans for a pounds 1 million modernisation of an architecturally outstanding Victorian church to an ecclesiastical court yesterday.

Row over vicar's pounds 1m scheme for Victorian church

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After spending two years rowing in an ecclesiastical court, Kim was reportedly ordered to pay for the gravestone to be reinstated to its original appearance.