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Tag: Ecclesiastical Law

  • Letters Of Ask

    English Law and Ecclesiastical Law: Letters of Ask in the Past An instrument by which a judge of an inferior court waives or remits his own jurisdiction in favor of a court of appeal immediately superior to it. Developments Letters of ask, in general, lie only where an appeal would lie and […]

  • Letters Of Ask

    English Law and Ecclesiastical Law: Letters of Ask in the Past An instrument by which a judge of an inferior court waives or remits his own jurisdiction in favor of a court of appeal immediately superior to it. Developments Letters of ask, in general, lie only where an appeal would lie and […]

  • Spoliation

    English Law and Ecclesiastical Law: Spoliation in the Past The name of a suit sued out in the spiritual court to recover for the fruits of the church or for the church itself. F. N. B. 85. Developments It is also a waste of church property (see more about this popular legal topic in the…

  • Ecclesiastical Law

    Definition of Ecclesiastical Law In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Ecclesiastical Law : (canon law, ecclesiastical law) Church law, such as the Roman Catholic Code of Canon Law and, in England, the law of the Church of England. Unless subsequently […]

  • Dupex Querela

    English Law and Ecclesiastical Law: Dupex Querela in the Past A complaint in the nature of an appeal from the ordinary to his next immediate superior. 3 Bl. Com 247. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about dupex […]

  • Writ Of Excommunicatio Capiendo

    English Law and Ecclesiastical Law: Writ of Excommunicatio Capiendo in the Past A writ issuing out of chancery, founded on a hishop’s certificate that the defendant had been excommunicated, which writ is returnable in the king’s bench. F. N. B. 62, 64, 65 Bac. Ab. Excommunication, E. See […]

  • Court Of Audience

    English Law and Ecclesiastical Law: Court of Audience in the Past The name of a court kept by the archbishop in his palace, in which are transacted matters of form only; as confirmation of bishops, elections, consecrations and the like. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] […]

  • Audience Court

    English Law and Ecclesiastical Law: Audience Court in the Past A court belonging to the archbishop of Canterbury, having the same authority with the court of arches. 4 Inst. 337. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information […]

  • Audience Court

    English Law and Ecclesiastical Law: Audience Court in the Past A court belonging to the archbishop of Canterbury, having the same authority with the court of arches. 4 Inst. 337. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information […]

  • Bona Notabilia

    English Law and Ecclesiastical Law: Bona Notabilia in the Past Notable goods. When a person dies having at the time of his death, goods in any other diocese, beside’s the goods in the diocese where he dies, amounting to the value of five pounds in the whole, he is said to have bona notabilia; […]

  • Beneficio Primo Ecclesiastico Habendo

    English Law and Ecclesiastical Law: Beneficio Primo Ecclesiastico Habendo in the Past A writ directed from the king to the chancellor, commanding him to bestow the benefice which must first fall in the king’s gift, above or under a certain value, upon a particular and certain person. […]

  • Heresy

    Note: see also heresy in the European legal Encyclopedia and click here about heresy in the world. Heresy according to the Law of England: History The highest point reached by the ecclesiastical power in England was in the Act De Haeretico comburendo (2 Henry IV. c. 15). Some have […]

  • Quare Impedit

    English Law and Ecclesiastical Law: Quare Impedit in the Past The name of a writ directed by the king to the sheriff (see law enforcement in the U.K. encyclopedia), by which he is needd to command certain people by name to allow him, the king, to present a fit person to a certain church, which…

  • Magister Ad Facultates

    English Law and Ecclesiastical Law: Magister ad Facultates in the Past The title of an officer who grants dispensations; as, to marry, to eat flesh on days prohibited and the like. Bac. Ab. Eccles. Courts, A 5. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, […]

  • Treason

    Treason in English Law Introduction to Treason Two grades of treason existed in early English law: high treason, which was directed against the Crown, and petty treason, which consisted of a crime against a subject, such as a wife killing her husband, or a servant murdering his master. In […]