Ecclesiastical Law
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Thatspecies of law which is administered by the ecclesiastical courts. The ecclesiastical law of England is compounded of these four main ingredients; the civil law, the canon law, the common law, and the statute law. Bum's Eccl. Law, pref.
See 6 Co. Caudrey's case.