Ecclesiastical Courts
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Lat. curiae christianitatis.] Courts held in England by the king's authority, as supreme head of the church, for the consideration of matters chiefly relating to religion. Jacob. Tomlins.
4 Inst. 221.
They are the archdeacon's court, the consistory court, the court of arches, the court of peculiars, the prerogative court, and the privy council, which is the great court of appeal.
2 Chitt. Gen. Pr. 494.
Wharton's Lex. See Archdeacon's court, and the other titles.