Diocesan Courts
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Diocesan Courts, the consistorial courts of each diocese, exercising general jurisdiction of all matters arising locally within their respective limits, with the exception of places subject to peculiar jurisdiction; deciding all matters of spiritual discipline-suspending or depriving clergymen-and administering the other branches of the ecclesiastical law, 2 Steph. Com.
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