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Heresy

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In English law

An offense against religion, consisting not in a total denial of Christianity, 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. C. 384.

This offense is now subject only to eccleslastical correction, and is no longer punishable by the secular law.

4 Steph. Comm. 233.