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Diocesan Courts

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Consistory Court

Consistory Court, the pr'torium, or tribunal of every diocesan bishop, held in their several cathedrals for the trial of all ecclesiastical causes arising within their jurisdiction. The … Consistory Court, the pr'torium, or tribunal of every diocesan bishop, held in their several cathedrals for the trial of all

Chancery Court of York

85, s. 7, and ARCHES COURT. The ecclesiatical court of province of York, responsible for appeals from provincial diocesan courts, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.

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Eleemosynary corporations

are not subject to the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts, or to the visitations of the ordinary or diocesan in their spiritual charac-ters, 3 Steph. Com.

Benefice

transfer, to purchase the advowson from the new patron, in which case it will be vested in the Diocesan Board of Patronage. The (English) Benefices Act, 1898, allows a bishop to refuse to institute a clergyman to … or ritual, there is an appeal to the archbishop of the province and a judge of the Supreme Court. The (English) Benefice (Exercise of Rights of Presentation) Measure, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, No. 3), gives

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