Definition of Archdeacons Court

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Archdeacon's court
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    An English ecclesiastical court with jurisdiction in probate, administration and ecclesiastical matters within the archdeaconry. See 3 Bl. Comm. 64.

  • Archdeacon's Court
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In English ecclesiastical law. A court held before a judge appointed by the archdeacon, and called his official. Its jurisdiction comprises the granting of probates and administrations, and ecclesiastical causes in general, arising within the archdeaconry. It is the most inferior court in the whole ecclesiastical polity of England. 3 Bl. Comm. 64; 3 Steph. Comm. 430.