Religion
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
As used in constitutional provisions forbidding the "establishment of religion," the term means a particular system of faith and worship recognised and practised by a particular church, sect or denomination. See Reynolds v. U. St, 98 U. S. 149, 25 L. Ed. 244; Davis v. Beason, 133 US. 333, 10 Sup. Ct 299, 33 In Ed. 637; Board of Education v. Minor, 23 Ohio St. 241, 13 Am. Rep. 233.
— Religion, offenses against. In English law. They are thus enumerated by Black-stone:
(1) Apostasy;
(2) heresy;
(3) reviling the ordinances of the church ;
(4) blasphemy;
(5) profane swearing;
(6) conjuration or witchcraft;
(7) religious imposture;
(8) simony;
(9) profanation of the Lord's day ;
(10) drunkenness;
(11) lewdness. 4 Bl. Comm. 43.