Diocesan Courts

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Ecclesiastical courts taking cognizance of all matters arising within the diocese of each bishop. They consist of the consistorial court, and the courts of archdeacons, exercising general or limited jurisdictions, according to the terms of their patents, or to local customs, or to the authority of recent legislation. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1202.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Courts held by the bishop or his chancellor in each diocese.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

See Consistory Courts; Church of England.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In English law. The consistorial courts of each diocese, exermetal or other substance, used among the cising general jurisdiction of all matters arisRomans for the purpose of writing, and folding locally within their respective limits, ed like a book of two leaves. The diptychs with the exception of places subject to pcof antiquity were especlally employed for culiar jurisdiction; deciding all matters of publlc registers. They were used in tha spiritual discipline,—suspending or depriving Greek, and afterwards in the Roman, church, clergymen,—and administering the other as registers of the names of those for whom branches of the ecclesiastical law. 2 Steph. supplication was to be made, and are ranked Comm. 672. among the earliest monastic records. BurrilL

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In Englishlaw. The consistorial courts of each diocese, exercising general jurisdiction of ali matters arising locally within their respective limits, with the exception of places subject to peculiar jurisdiction; deciding all matters of spiritual discipline,—suspending or depriving clergymen,—and administering the other branches of the ecelestastical law. 2 Steph. Comm. 672.