English ecclesiastical courts

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English ecclesiastical courts were church-run judicial bodies in England that handled matters such as marriage, morality, wills, and clerical discipline under canon law.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf church court
ecclesiastical court system
appliedLaw canon law
ecclesiastical law
country England
higherCourt Court of Arches
Court of Delegates
High Court of Delegates
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
historicalPeriod Stuart period
Tudor period
linked to: Tudor England

Victorian era
early modern England
medieval England
includedCourtType Court of Arches
archdeaconry court
consistory court
peculiar court
prerogative court
jurisdiction adultery
blasphemy
church discipline
church property
clerical discipline
defamation
faculty jurisdiction
fornication
heresy
legitimacy
marriage
matrimonial causes
morality
pews and seats in church
probate
testamentary matters
tithes
wills
languageOfRecord English
Latin
lostJurisdictionTo civil courts
lostMatrimonialJurisdictionTo Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes
lostProbateJurisdictionTo Court of Probate
operatedBy Church of England
procedureType inquisitorial procedure
punishmentType excommunication
interdict
penance
suspension from office
relatedTo English legal history
canon law of the Church of England
significantReform Court of Probate Act 1857
Ecclesiastical Courts Act 1857
Judicature Acts
Reformation in England
linked to: English Reformation
usedOfficial advocate
chancellor
commissary
proctor
registrar

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Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Act in Restraint of Appeals 1533 relatedTo English ecclesiastical courts
Measures of the Church of England enforcedBy ecclesiastical courts of the Church of England
linked to: English ecclesiastical courts
Act in Restraint of Appeals transferredAppealsTo English ecclesiastical courts
John Greenwood opposedBy ecclesiastical courts of the Church of England
linked to: English ecclesiastical courts
Canon C1 enforcedBy ecclesiastical courts of the Church of England
linked to: English ecclesiastical courts
John Godolphin areaOfInfluence English ecclesiastical courts
Dean of the Arches category Church courts of the Church of England
linked to: English ecclesiastical courts
Official Principal of the Archbishop of Canterbury isPartOf ecclesiastical courts of the Church of England
linked to: English ecclesiastical courts
Prerogative Court of Canterbury category Ecclesiastical courts of the Church of England
linked to: English ecclesiastical courts
Prerogative Court of York category Ecclesiastical courts of the Church of England
linked to: English ecclesiastical courts