Spiritual
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Ecclesiastical; pious; religious. Thus the books speak of the spiritual courts, and of spiritual corporations. the word "spiritual" instead of "spirituous."
State V. Clark, 3 Ind. 451.
Spiritualities of a bishop. Those profits which a bishop receives in his ecclesiastical character, as the dues arising from his ordaining and instituting priests, presentation money, and such like, in contradistinction to those profits which he acquires in his temporal capacity as a baron and lord of parliament, and which are termed his temporalities, consisting of certain lands, revenues, and lay fees, &c.
Staund. PI. Cor. 132; Cowel.