| 单词 | benefit of peerage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbenefit of peerage c. Law. The advantage of belonging to a privileged order which was exempted from the jurisdiction or sentence of the ordinary courts of law; the exemption itself: in the phrases benefit of clergy, benefit of peerage; see clergy n., peerage n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > legal privilege or immunity > applying to clergy clergyc1275 immunity1449 benefit of clergy1488 benefice of clergy1489 benefit of (his) clergy1511 book1537 privilege of clergy1588 society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > legal privilege or immunity > applying to peers benefit of peerage1718 1488–9 Act 4 Hen. VII xiii. title An act to take awaye the benefytt of Clergye from certayne persons. 1718 Mem. Life J. Kettlewell ii. §56. 175 To this they Pleaded the Benefit of their Peerage. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. ii. 62 In 1513..the benefit of clergy was entirely taken away from murderers and highway robbers. < as lemmas |
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