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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

COURT OF. In English ecclesiastical law. A jurisdiction or tribunal belonging to the archbishop. It does not hold pleas in any suits, but creates rights to pews, monuments, and particular places, and modes of burial. It has also various powers under 25 Hen. VIII. ec. 21, in granting licenses of different descriptions, as a license to marry, a faculty to erect an organ ina parish church, to level a church-yard, to remove bodies previously buried.

4 Inst. 337.