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Consistorial causes

Consistorial causes. In Scotland, actions concerning the matrimonial relations.

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Consistorial

Of or pertaining to a consistory

Consistorian

Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy

Bishop

(3) a power of administration and government of the revenues thereof, gained on confirmation. He has, also, a Consistory Court, to hear ecclesiastical causes, and visits and superintends the clergy of his diocese. He consecrates churches and

Commissary Court

Commissary Court. The name of the Court in Canterbury which exercises the functions of a Consistory Court (q.v.).

Court

the County Court, the Courts of Summary Jurisdiction, the Courts of Quarter Sessions, the Court of Arches, the Consistory Court. Courts are either of record, where their acts and judicial proceedings are enrolled for a perpetual memorial

Court file

Court file, relating to the proceedings in the consistory court mean the totality of the documentation relating to a petition notwithstanding that for practical reasons some of

Ecclesiastical Courts

Ecclesiastical Courts [curi' Christianitatis, Lat.] are the Archdeacon's Court, the Consistory Courts, the Court of Arches, the Courts of Peculiars, the Prerogative Courts of the two archbishops, the Faculty

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