Sentence examples for ecclesiastical courts from inspiring English sources

The Church of England has its own ecclesiastical courts.

His most important piece of legislation, the Siccardi laws of 1851, abolished ecclesiastical courts and immunities.

The members practiced in the ecclesiastical courts and in the Court of Admiralty.

In England the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts was continuously narrowed by the royal courts.

Ecclesiastical courts on the English pattern had not existed in the American colonies.

D'Azeglio introduced the Siccardi law, which curtailed the power of ecclesiastical courts.

But others have promised to exhaust every appeal available in ecclesiastical courts.

A parallel complaint against the bishop was filed by her supporters in ecclesiastical court.

He was condemned for heresy by the ecclesiastical court and sentenced to death for murder by the civil court.

As a result, ecclesiastical court proceedings of one sort or another were pending against him for more than 20 years.

He was lucky that his age was taken as a reason for him not being tried in an ecclesiastical court.