Secularizing a Religious Legal System: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in Early Eighteenth Century England

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AuthorTroy L. Harris
PositionAssociate Professor of Law, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. J.D. (Michigan); Ph.D. (Chicago)
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
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
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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
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of debate throughout the period, with divine-right and voluntaristic conceptions
vying for precedence. Placed in this context, the King’s Bench decision in Middleton
v Crofts (1736) represented an important step in the direction of limiting the reach
of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and did so on grounds that undermined divine-right
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Secularization, Eighteenth Century, Ecclesiastical Courts, Middleton v Crofts,
Canon Law
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     

          
     

         
3

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      
      

 
          

      
              
   
        
  Middleton v. Crofts       
       
   
      
     


 Seee.g.

          

 Seee.g.
  

 See The Work of the Ecclesiastical Courts, 1725-1745in

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