Ecclesiastical - Judgment Search Results

Gaines Vs. Relf

Court: US Supreme Court

..... new orleans was constituted with a civil jurisdiction comprehending also what had been before exclusively ecclesiastical that the court could only grant divorces a vinculo for the same causes for ..... it had been faithfully and honestly preserved the catholic church in spain and the spanish ecclesiastical authorities in new orleans had a political character and did exercise an undefined jurisdiction in .....

Grace Isabel Stuedman Vs. Anneley Eliardo Beresford De Courey Wheeler

Court: Kolkata

Reported in: AIR1945Cal75

..... 6 from the time that the church of rome became the supreme ecclesiastical authority in england the ecclesiastical courts applied the canon law in matrimonial causes christiah marriage was indissoluble ..... this high court matrimonial jurisdiction on christian subject within the local limits of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the supreme court clause 37 of this charter ordained inter alia that .....

Smith Vs. Swormstedt

Court: US Supreme Court

..... in that connection this body of preachers founded it by organizing its government ecclesiastical and temporal established its doctrines and discipline appointed its superintendents or bishops its ..... expedient and necessary to erect the annual conferences last aforesaid into a distinct ecclesiastical connection based upon the discipline of the methodist episcopal church aforesaid comprehending the .....

Most. Rev. P.M.A. Metropolitan and Others, Etc. Etc. Vs. Moran Mar Mar ...

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: AIR1995SC2001; JT1995(5)SC1; 1995(4)SCALE1; 1995Supp(4)SCC286; [1995]Supp1SCR542

..... necessarily a native of malankara was invariably exercising administrative powers over temporal and ecclesiastical matters which authority was derived because of his election approval by the members ..... pastoral orders the same dictionary defines the word congregationalism as a system of ecclesiastical polity which regards all legislative disciplinary and judicial functions as vested in the .....

Serbian Orthodox Diocese Vs. Milivojevich

Court: US Supreme Court

..... and particular ones and publishes their collections 12 prescribes the ecclesiastical judicial procedure for all ecclesiastical courts 26 settles disputes of jurisdiction between hierarchical and ..... religious controversies whose resolution the first amendment commits exclusively to the highest ecclesiastical tribunals of this hierarchical church and although the diocesan bishop controls respondent .....

Watson Vs. Jones

Court: US Supreme Court

..... for the decision of controverted questions of faith within the association and for the ecclesiastical government of all the individual members congregations and officers within the general association is ..... sustains the proposition clearly and fully this court says the chief justice having no ecclesiastical jurisdiction cannot revise or question ordinary acts of church discipline our only judicial .....

Kedroff Vs. Saint Nicholas Cathedral

Court: US Supreme Court

..... for the decision of controverted questions of faith within the association and for the ecclesiastical government of all the individual members congregations and officers within the general association ..... fraud collusion or arbitrariness the decisions of the proper church tribunals on matters purely ecclesiastical although affecting civil rights are accepted in litigation before the secular courts as .....

Scott (Otherwise Morgan) and Another Vs. Scott

Court: House of Lords

..... the report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the practice and jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts in 1832 the personnel of the commission gives this unanimous report the highest ..... of great accomplishments and learning including mr stephen lushington the course of proceeding of the ecclesiastical courts is dealt with in detail including the mode of taking evidence by deposition .....

Gaines Vs. Hennen

Court: US Supreme Court

..... the cathedral church of the diocese to which new orleans belonged at that period an ecclesiastical proceeding against des grange for bigamy which respondents insist is the same to which complainants ..... royal authority and stretched its jurisdiction to every cause in the slightest degree connected with ecclesiastical discipline or punishment the king resisted it and he was soon furnished with a cause .....

Ramesh Ramanlal Saraiya Vs. Kusum Madgaokar

Court: Mumbai

Reported in: AIR1949Bom1; (1948)50BOMLR426

..... stated earlier in 1859 the matrimonial causes act was passed the whole jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts became vested in the supreme court of judicature in england therefore as the heir ..... in giving the matrimonial court in england jurisdiction to deal with eases over which the ecclesiastical courts had theretofore such jurisdiction sections 20 21 vict clause 85 section 22 the above .....