Beneficium Clericale
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Benefit of clergy (q. v.)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Benefit of clergy, which see. BENEFICIUM C 0 MPETE NTI /E. In Scotch Law. The privilege of retaining a competence helonging to the obligor in a tutes a good defence in part to an action on the bond. Paterson, Comp. In Civil Law. The right which an insolvent debtor had, among the Romans, on making cession of his property for the benefit of his creditors, to retain what was required for him to live honestly according to his condition. 7 Toullier, n. 258. A defendant's privilege of being condemned only in an amount which he could pay without being reduced to a state of destitution. Sand. Justinian iv. vi. 37.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Benefit of clergy. See Benefit.
Defined under Beneficium in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Benefit of clergy, which see.