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.