Sentences with phrase «ecclesiastical courts»
Ecclesiastical courts are courts that are part of a religious organization, like the church. They handle legal matters related to religious issues, such as disputes between members of the church or deciding on matters of religious doctrine. Full definition
Only bishops could ordain, confirm, and exercise discipline through ecclesiastical courts; therefore they were desperately needed in America.
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In dismissing his case, Circuit Chief Judge Richard A. Posner offers what Fox describes as «a handy history of the ministerial exception, including a historical sojourn through such ecclesiastical courts as the Court of Peculiars and the Court of Arches.»
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There were no bishops and no ecclesiastical courts to regulate discipline.
In the Middle Ages a number of canonists teach that ecclesiastical courts should refrain from the death penalty and that civil courts should impose it only for major crimes.
Wycliff was sum - moned to appear before an ecclesiastical court and it was only due to the forceful protection of the Duke of Lanchester, he escaped condemnation.
He stood against the Tsar's control of synods, ordinations, and ecclesiastical courts.
In cases before the ecclesiastical courts, the Roman Church smiles on both sides for a little palm grease.
For example, when Parliament enacted the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857, which transferred jurisdiction from the ecclesiastical courts of the CoE to the High Court, it stated that the High Court should be «conformable to the Principles and Rules on which the Ecclesiastical Courts have heretofore acted and given Relief».
This regulation, while prescribing civil penalties, preserved the concurrent jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to punish Sabbath breaking.
Presided over by the Right Honourable and Right Worshipful the Official Principal and Dean of the Arches, it is the ecclesiastical court for the Province of Canterbury (i.e. the south half of England).
Family law is no different in this regard than the law of property, torts and contract, particularly following the English Parliament's seizure of jurisdiction in matrimonial causes from the ecclesiastical courts in 1857.
Recognition of the decisions provided for in paragraph 2 may, in Spain, Italy or Malta, be subject to the same procedures and the same checks as are applicable to decisions of the ecclesiastical courts handed down in accordance with the international treaties concluded with the Holy See referred to in paragraph 3.
When the 1857 Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act stripped the ecclesiastical courts of their power over judicial separation and the matrimonial torts it naturally placed that power in the hands of the Queen, to be exercised on her behalf by the newly - minted Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes.