Ecclesiastical Offence in UK Law
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The Law of Abortion and Necessity
... ... any case where a woman had been raped provided the offence had been proved in a court of justice. Mr. Bourne’s ... Sciencess1 that it was regarded in them as an ecclesiastical offence only. But it is clear that from fairly early times it ... ...
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Ex parte Choudhury — An Opportunity Missed
... ... , from Taylor’s cases in 1676 which transformed the offence of blasphemy from an ecclesiastical offence to, ‘a crimc against ... ...
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THE BURDEN OF PROOF IN BIGAMY
... ... reasonably) believes that his first wife is dead the offence of bigamy will not have been com- mitted even though ... Bigamy was originally a very different ecclesiastical offence, first proscribed as a felony in England in 1604 ... ...
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Round the World
... ... , incest was originally in the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts and there is no history at common law. It was first ... In the United States, incest is always a statutory offence, sharing the English background of the ecclesiastical authorities, ... ...
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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 ...... ... This creatrd the Court of Ecclesiastical Causrs Reserved as a new court of trial (instead of the ... against morals or discipline, but any ecclesiastical offence involving a point of doctrine, ritual or ceremonial is now ... ...
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Recent Judicial Decisions
... ... any game to be played in thepremises in such circumstancesthatan offence underPart2 of theBetting, GamingandLotteries Act, 1963, is committed ... he ... 2. Ecclesiastical Courts Juris-diction Act, 1860, which provides for a summary offence in ... ...
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The Rise and Fall of Ban Sein
... ... brotherhood could only be tried in a Criminal Court if the offence with which they were charged was an ecclesiastical as well as a ... ...
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Suicide
... ... textbooks as " self murder." At one time it was an offence against the Church and was punishable by ecclesiastical law; ... ...
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Blasphemy, Cultural Divergence and Legal Relativism
... ... and Legal Relativism Clive Unsworth * Introduction The offence of blasphemy was by the 1970s typically dismissed as an ... Against Religion and Public Worship’ (1989) 1 Ecclesiastical LJ 27. 6 See Green, ‘Beyond The Satanic Verses : ... ...
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THE REVIVAL OF A MATRIMONIAL OFFENCE BY SUBSEQUENT MISCONDUCT
... ... revival of a condoned matrimonial offence by subsequent misconduct, which is derived from decisions and dicta in the Ecclesiastical Courts. It will be remembered that the Act, as well as making desertion for three years immediately preceding the presentation ... ...
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