Consistory
Defined in 9 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In ecclesiastical law. An assembly of cardinals convoked by the pope. The consistory is either public or secret. It is public when the pope receives princes or gives audience to ambassadors; secret when he fills vacant sees, proceeds to the canonization of saints, or judges and settles certain contestations submitted to him.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
An assembly of cardinals convoked by the pope. The consistory is either public or secret. It Is public when the pope receives princes or gives audience to ambassadors; secret when he fills vacant sees, proceeds to the canonization of saints, or judges and settles certain contestations submitted to him. A tribunal (prcetorium).
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
A session, assembly or council of ecclesiastical persons; a spiritual court; the highest council of state in the papal government In English ecclesiastical law. Consistory court: a court held by every diocesan bishop in his cathedral for the trial of ecclesiastical causes.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
[In ecciesiastical law. An assembly of cardinals convoked by the pope.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
v. Court, 80.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
[Lat. consistorium.] A session, assembly or council of ecclesiastical persons. Blount. The highest council of state in the papal government. Encycl. Amer. A spiritual court; otherwise called the consistory court, (q. v.)
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
ecclesiastical law. - A court which was formerly held among protestants, in some church in which the bishop presided, assisted by some of his clergy. It is now held in England, by the bishop’s chancellor or commissary, and some other ecclesiastical officers, either in the cathedral, church or other place in his diocese, for the determination of ecclesiastical cases arising in that diocese. Merl. Rép. h. t.; Burn’s Dict. h. t.