Ecclesiastical Offence in UK Law

  • Ex parte Choudhury — An Opportunity Missed
    • No. 54-2, March 1991
    • The Modern Law Review
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    ... ... cases, from Taylor’s cases in 1676 which transformed the offence of blasphemy from an ecclesiastical offence to, ‘a crimc against the ... ...
  • The Law of Abortion and Necessity
    • No. 2-2, September 1938
    • The Modern Law Review
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    ... ... in any case where a woman had been raped provided the offence had been proved in a court of justice. Mr. Bourne’s attitude was, ... of Social Sciencess1 that it was regarded in them as an ecclesiastical offence only. But it is clear that from fairly early times it was ... ...
  • THE BURDEN OF PROOF IN BIGAMY
    • No. 18-5, September 1955
    • The Modern Law Review
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    ... ... , also reasonably) believes that his first wife is dead the offence of bigamy will not have been com- mitted even though he is ... Bigamy was originally a very different ecclesiastical offence, first proscribed as a felony in England in 1604 by 2 ... ...
  • Reviews
    • No. 31-2, March 1968
    • The Modern Law Review
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    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 Consistory ... charges against morals or discipline, but any ecclesiastical offence involving a point of doctrine, ritual or ceremonial is now excluded ... ...
  • Familial Offences
    • Sexual Offences Referencer (Third Edition)
    • Oxford University Press Books and Journals
    • 159-184
    ... ... England and Ireland only by proceedings in the ecclesiastical courts. The 1908 Act created ... the offence of incest, which covered ... ...
  • Blasphemy, Cultural Divergence and Legal Relativism
    • No. 58-5, September 1995
    • The Modern Law Review
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    ... ... Divergence and Legal Relativism Clive Unsworth * Introduction The offence of blasphemy was by the 1970s typically dismissed as an archaism ... Offences Against Religion and Public Worship’ (1989) 1 Ecclesiastical LJ 27. 6 See Green, ‘Beyond The Satanic Verses : Conservative Religion ... ...
  • Round the World
    • No. 38-1, January 1965
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
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    ... ... In England, incest was originally in the jurisdictionofthe ecclesiastical courtsand there is no history at common law.Itwas first introduced in ... In the United States, incest is always astatutory offence, sharing the English background of the ecclesiastical authorities,and ... ...
  • THE REVIVAL OF A MATRIMONIAL OFFENCE BY SUBSEQUENT MISCONDUCT
    • No. 8-3, July 1945
    • The Modern Law Review
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    ... ... of the 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 of the ... ...
  • Recent Judicial Decisions
    • No. 40-12, December 1967
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
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    ... ... 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 ... ...
  • A Jurisdiction in Search of a Mission: Family Proceedings in England and Wales
    • No. 57-6, November 1994
    • The Modern Law Review
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    ... ... a decree of ‘divorce’ a mensa et thoro granted by an Ecclesiastical When the jurisdiction to dissolve marriages was conferred on the ... courts, was the discretion to refuse a decree even when an offence had been committed by the respondent if the petitioner, too, ... ...
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