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Definition :

Plenary, full, complete; an ordinary proceeding through all its gradations and formal steps, opposed to summary.

Plenary causes in the Ecclesiastical Courts re reduced to the following:

(1) Suits for ecclesiastical dilapidations.

(2) Suits relating to seats or sitting-places in churches.

(3) Suits for tithes.