Duplex Querela
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Double complaint
An ecclesiastical proceeding, which is in the nature of an appeal from an ordinary’s refusal to institute, to his next immediate superior; as from a bishop to the archbishep. If the superior adjudges the eause of refusal to be insufficient, he will prant institution to the appellant.
DPhillim, Eee. Law, 440.