| 单词 | ecclesiastical law |
| 释义 | > as lemmasecclesiastical law b. ecclesiastical commission, commissioners: a body of commissioners, acting in subordination to the Privy Council, for administering certain portions of the revenues of the Established Church of England. ecclesiastical corporations: corporations consisting solely of ecclesiastical persons. ecclesiastical courts: courts for administering ecclesiastical law and maintaining the discipline of the Established Church. ecclesiastical law: the law, derived from Canon and Civil law, administered by such courts. ecclesiastical judge: a judge of an ecclesiastical court. ΚΠ 1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions ii. v. 149 I see not why the Ecclesiasticall Judge..may not convent the person accused. 1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. xiv. §5. 215 The humane Lawes (which are also called Ecclesiasticall) concerning things sacred. 1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 176 The Clergy..had and will have..inferior Courts in their own Power, called Ecclesiastical. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xiv. 408 No legal defence could be made for the ecclesiastical commission of 1686. 1836 H. Rogers Life J. Howe (1863) viii. 195 Dignitaries of the Church..put into motion all the..machinery of the ecclesiastical courts. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iv. viii. 394 All bishops have chancellors to assist them in..matters of ecclesiastical law. ecclesiastical law Thesaurus » Categories » a. With defining word, indicating some one of the branches into which law, as an object of study or exposition, may be divided, according to the matter with which it is concerned, as commercial law, ecclesiastical law, etc., the law of banking, law of evidence, etc.; or according to the source from which it is derived, as statute law, customary law, case law (see case n.1), etc. See also canon law n. at canon n.1 1b, civil law n., common law n. and adj., martial law n. < as lemmas |
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