Legal Definition and Related Resources of Consistory court
Meaning of Consistory court
In English law. The courts of diocesan bishops held in their several cathedrals before the bishops’ chancellor, or commissary, who is the judge, for the trial of all ecclesiastical causes arising within their respective dioceses, and also for granting probates and administrations. From the sentence of these courts an appeal lies to the archbishop of each province respectively. 2 Steph. Comm. 230, 237; 3 Steph. Comm. 430, 431; 3 Bl. Comm. 641; 1 Wooddeson, Lect. 145; Halifax, Anal. bk. 3, c. 10, note 12.
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Consistory court in Law Enforcement
Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of consistory court.
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- consistory court in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
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- See ecclesiastical courts.
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