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Ecclesiastical law






Ecclesiastical law

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

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Rules
English law. The rules of the King's Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the marshal of the king's bench, or warden of the fleet, may reside; those limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls.

Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.



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

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



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

Ecclesiastical law

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

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