Heresy
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In English law
An offenre against religion, consisting not in a total denial of Clivistianity, but of some of its essential doctrines, publicly and obstinately avowed.
4 Bl. Comm. 44,45.
An opinion on divine subjects devised by human reason, openly taught, and obstinately maintained.
1 Hale, P. ©. 884.
This offense is now subject only to ecclesiastical correction, and is ne longer punishable by the secular law.
4 Steph. Comm. 233.