| 单词 | court of delegates |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCourt of (the) Delegates b. Court of (the) Delegates; sometimes also High Court of Delegates: a court of appeal principally hearing cases from the ecclesiastical courts. Now historical.Under the Submission of the Clergy Act 1533, commissioners were appointed to deal with appeals from the Archbishops' courts which had previously gone to Rome; these commissioners came to be known as the Court of Delegates. The court also heard appeals from the Court of Admiralty, the university courts, and the Court of Chivalry. It was abolished in 1833 and its jurisdiction transferred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. ΚΠ 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. f. 101v/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I The same thirde daye in the afternoone is the court of the Delegates and of the Queenes highnesse Commissyoners vpon appeales kept in the same place. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 66 The great court of appeal in all ecclesiastical causes, viz. the court of delegates, judices delegati, appointed by the king's commission under his great seal, and issuing out of chancery, to represent his royal person. 1833 Legal Observer 6 498/2 The recommendation of the ecclesiastical commissioners for the transfer of appeals from the High Court of Delegates to the Privy Council..expressly refers to the presence of a Civilian Judge. 2002 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 74 108 The case against [Dr.] Free..was..delayed while legal technicalities were resolved in the secular courts of King's Bench and the House of Lords and in the ecclesiastical Court of Delegates. < as lemmas |
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