English statutes passed in 1164 limiting the powers of the church.
Definition of Constitutions Of Clarendon
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Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd EditionSee Clarendon.
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Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition
The constitutions of Clarendon were certain statutes made in the reign of Henry II. of England, at a parliament held at Clarendon, (A. D. 1164,) by which the king checked the power of the pope and his clergy, and greatly narrowed the exemption they claimed from secular jurisdiction. 4 Bl. Comm. 422,