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the Arches, in right of such added office, receives and determines appeals from the sentences of all Inferior Ecclesiastical Courts within the province. There was formerly an appeal to the king in Chancery, or to a Court

Excommunication

Excommunication, an ecclesiastical interdict or censure, divided into the greater and the lesser; by the greater a person was excluded from … be sued by others.) Excommunication was formerly the process by which the decrees and orders of the Ecclesiastical Courts were enforced; but in all cases of contempt of Court it has now been abolished, and in lieu

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Consultation

A writ in the nature of a procedendo, whereby a cause, having been removed by prohibition from the Ecclesiastical Court to the King's Court, is returned thither again; for if the judges of the King's Court, upon comparing … party, find the suggestion false or not proved, and therefore the cause to be wrongfully removed from the Ecclesiastical Court, then upon this consultation or deliberation they decree it to be returned, whereupon the writ in this case

A vinculo matrimonii

A vinculo matrimonii. (From the bond of wedlock). It was a total divorce obtained from the Ecclesiastical Court on some canonical impediment existing before marriage and not arising afterwards, for the marriage was declared void, as … Peerage Case, (1844) 11 Cl & F 143.] Though this divorce could not have been obtained from the Ecclesiastical Court where the marriage was not void ab initio, yet it was frequently granted before the establishment of the

Adultery

By the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, which created a Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (superseding the Ecclesiastical Court) which would grant to the innocent party a divorce a mensa et thoro on the ground of the

Offence

are certain acts which are heinous sins and odious in the public eye and are punishable in the Ecclesiastical Courts, but not being punishable at Common Law, and the proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts being held to … certain acts which are heinous sins and odious in the public eye and are punishable in the Ecclesiastical Courts, but not being punishable at Common Law, and the proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts being held to be

Bishop

four things necessary to his complete title: (1) election, which resembles the presentation of a clerk to an ecclesiastical benefice; (2) confirmation, which cannot be opposed on doctrinal grounds: see Reg. v. Archbishop of Canterbury, 1902 KB … 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 institutes

Eleemosynary corporations

studies with greater care and assiduity. These eleemosynary corporations, though in some things partaking of the nature of ecclesiastical bodies, are, strictly speaking, lay, and not ecclesiastical, even though composed of ecclesiastical persons; and, accordingly, they are … even though composed of ecclesiastical persons; and, accordingly, they 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.

Civil Law

its influence, and entered largely into the composition of the Common Law. Under the influence of the foreign ecclesiastics, who, pouring into this country after the Conquest, long monopolized the administration of the law, great encouragement was … This collection consists of the forms of pleadings, called Actiones Juris, adopted in all proceedings and acts of Court. it was complied about 440 A.U.C. or B.C. 312 by Appius Claudius Caecus, who, being blind, was obliged

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