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Ecclesiastical courts



Ecclesiastical courts

English law. Courts held by the king's authority as supreme governor of the church, for matters which chiefly concern religion.

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Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.

Authority
Government. The right and power which an officer has in the exercise of a public function to compel obedience to his lawful commands.

Supreme
That which is superior to all other things; as the supreme power of the state, which is an authority over all others. The supreme court, which is superior to all other courts.

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The title of the executive magistrate in each state and territory of the United States. Under the names of the particular states, the reader will find some of the duties of the governor of such state.

Church
A temple or building consecrated to the Honor of God and religion; or, an assembly of persons, united by the profession of the same Christian faith, met together for all religious worship. Robertson v. Bullions, 9 Barb. 95 (1850). The civil courts have only to do with the rights of property. When a right of property depends on a civil court question, and that question has been decided by the highest tribunal within the religious organization to which it has been carried, the civil courts accept that decision as final. Relations of Civil Law to Church Policy (1875) Hon. William Strong; Watson v. Jones, 13 Wall. 713, 722-31 (1871).

Religion
Real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men.



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Ecclesia
In classical Greek this word signifies any assembly. But ordinarily, in the New Testament, the word denotes a Christian assembly, and is rendered into English by the word church.

Ecclesiastic
A clergyman; one destined to the divine ministry, as, a bishop, a priest, a deacon.

Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.

Ecclesiastical law
By this phrase it is intended to include all those rules which govern ecclesiastical tribunals.

Ecclesiastics
Canon law. Those persons who compose the hierarchial state of the church. They are regular and secular.



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Ecclesiastical law
By this phrase it is intended to include all those rules which govern ecclesiastical tribunals.

Ecclesiastics
Canon law. Those persons who compose the hierarchial state of the church. They are regular and secular.

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