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Court Christian

Court Christian. The ecclesiastical judicature, opposed to the civil court or lay tribunal; and as insecular courts human laws are maintained, so

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Spiritual Courts

Spiritual Courts, ecclesiastical courts, which see.

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 bishop's chancellor, or his commissary, is the judge, and from his sentence … Consistory Court, the pr'torium, or tribunal of every diocesan bishop, held in their several cathedrals for the trial of all

VerbarRota

An ecclesiastical court of Rome called also Rota Romana that takes cognizance of suits by appeal It consists of twelve … An ecclesiastical court of Rome called also Rota Romana that takes cognizance of suits by appeal It consists of twelve members

Marriage

not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed … resulting from such marriages were not illegitimate unless and until the marriage had been declared void by the Ecclesiastical Courts, which declaration made the marriage void ab initio. But the (English) Marriage Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Wm.

Advocate

to that college, taken the degree of Doctor of Laws at an English university. The jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts in matters matrimonial and testamentary was in 1857 transferred to the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes and

Proctor

title still survives, but the separation no longer exists. Owing to the abolition of the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts in causes matrimonial and testamentary, the (English) Court of Probate Act, 1857 (2 & 21 Vict. c. 77), … of the Supreme Court'; and the Solicitors Act, 1932, s. 44, allows solicitors to appear as proctors in ecclesiastical courts and exercise the former rights of proctors.

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