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where a jury is thought desirable being usually transferred to the King's Bench Division. The trial in the Ecclesiastical Courts mostly resembles the former course of an ordinary trial in Chancery. Consult the Annual Practice as to … v. Maharashtra State Co-op. Marketing Federation Ltd., (1998) 5 SCC 69. Trial, is the examination by a competent court of the facts or laws in dispute, or put in issue in a case. It is the judicial

Solicitor

Act, 'attorneys' conducted business in the Common Law Courts, 'solicitors' business in the Court of Chancery and 'proctors' ecclesiastical and Admiralty business; but it was the general practice, although any person might be admitted to practise as

Heresy

at Common Law; that is, it left the simple offence to be visited by spiritual punishment in the Ecclesiastical Courts, which courts have long since ceased to exercise jurisdiction over laymen. Heresy in the clergy is punishable … Common Law; that is, it left the simple offence to be visited by spiritual punishment in the Ecclesiastical Courts, which courts have long since ceased to exercise jurisdiction over laymen. Heresy in the clergy is punishable under

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Article

Article [articulus, Lat.], a complaint exhibited in the Ecclesiastical Court by way of libel. The different parts of a libel, responsive allegation, or counter allegation in the Ecclesiastical

H'retico comburendo, De

but with a saving for the jurisdiction of Protestant archbishops or bishops or any other judges of any ecclesiastical courts to punish, according to his Majesty's ecclesiastical laws, 'atheism, blasphemy, heresy, or schism and other damnable doctrines … with a saving for the jurisdiction of Protestant archbishops or bishops or any other judges of any ecclesiastical courts to punish, according to his Majesty's ecclesiastical laws, 'atheism, blasphemy, heresy, or schism and other damnable doctrines and

Ecclesiastical

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court

of Justice) exercising judicial powers over its members or the members of a body represented by it [an ecclesiastical ] out of court : without a court hearing : by private arrangement [settled out of court]

Doctors' Commons

Doctors' Commons, an institution near St. Paul's Cathedral, where the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts were held. In 1768 a royal charter was obtained, by virtue of which the members … Doctors' Commons, an institution near St. Paul's Cathedral, where the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts were held. In 1768 a royal charter was obtained, by virtue of which the members of the society

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

the Dominions, Colonies and other Dependencies, e.g., Canada, Ceylon, India, Irish Free State, Australia, Channel Islands, etc. (2) Ecclesiastical appeals. (3) All appeals in prize cases from all Admiralty Courts. (4) Appeals under s. 4 of the … as shall from time to time hold or have held 'High Judicial Office,' i.e., judges of the Supreme Courts of England or Ireland, Court of Session in Scotland, and not more than seven judges of the superior

Letters of request

in the first instance in the Consistory Court. These letters dispense with instituting a suit in an inferior ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and authorize it in the superior Court, otherwise only a Court of Appeal. The judge of the

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