Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in UK Law
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Secularizing a Religious Legal System: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in Early Eighteenth Century England
The early eighteenth-century English ecclesiastical courts are a case study in the secularization of a legal system. As demonstrated elsewhere, the courts were very busy. And yet the theoretical ju...
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NOTES OF CASES
... ... NOTES OF CASES NULLITY JURISDICTION THERE is something to interest lawyers of several creeds ... because it had once been the practice of the ecclesiastical courts to assume jurisdiction over marriages celebrated in ... ...
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LAW AND RELIGION: THE LEGAL TEACHINGS OF THE PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC REFORMATIONS. Eds Wim Decock, Jordan J Ballor, Michael Germann and Laurent Waelkens
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (www.v-r.de/en/), 2014. 278 pp. ISBN 9783525550748. €110.
... ... and painted a wonderfully detailed picture of how the ecclesiastical jurisdiction with regard to marriage merged into the newly established ... ...
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The Law of Abortion and Necessity
... ... Sciencess1 that it was regarded in them as an ecclesiastical offence only. But it is clear that from fairly early times it ... 88 How completely it fell within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in France may be judged from Le Foyer’s treatise on the ... ...
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Reviews
Changing Concepts of Crime and its Treatment. Edited and introduced by Hugh J. Klare Some Problems of the Constitution. By Geoffrey Marshall and G. C. Moodie. Fourth Edition. Equity and the Law of ...... ... offences which wns set up by the ITrclesiastictil Jurisdiction Measure 1963. This creatrd the Court of Ecclesiastical ... ...
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NULLITY JURISDICTION IN NORTHERN IRELAND
... ... the ecclesia- stical courts, at one time by Church dignitaries, and afterwards under delegated powers by ecclesiastical lawyers.’ Their jurisdic- tion extended to divorces a mensa et thoro, suits for nullity of marriage, for restitution ... ...
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Void and Voidable Marriages
... ... jurisdiction was assumed without argument though the marriage was merely ... by canon law which was administered by the ecclesiastical courts. By canon law a marriage was either valid and ... ...
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THE VALIDATION OF VOID MARRIAGES
... ... Catholic Church, which was adopted by English ecclesiastical law, that a marriage void on the ground that there was no ... 1857, which introduced divorce and transferred the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts in matrimonial matters to the ... ...
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Recent Developments In Nullity Jurisdiction
... ... This distinction was not drawn by the ecclesiastical courts the competence of which was in all cases deter- mined by the residence of the respondent.4 It was the judgment ... ...
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THE PROVINCE AND FUNCTION OF ASSESSORS IN ENGLISH COURTS*
... ... is not confined to courts with Admiralty jurisdiction; county courfs, a11 divisions of the High Court and the ... , though until the reorganisation of the ecclesiastical courts in 1968 the Privy Council could hear ecclesiastical ... ...
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