Religious Impostors

Those who ship of God, the preservation and perpetuafalsely pretend an extraordinary commission tion of said church, and the better control from heaven, or terrify and abuse the people and regulation of the property thereof,” had with false denunciations of judgment; pun- no power to charter a steamboat, manage a ishable with fine, imprisonment, and infa- public excursion, and sell tickets therefor, in mous corporal punishment. 4 Br. & H. Com. order to raise money to pay debts of the 71. church; Harriman v. Church, 63 Ga. 186, 36 Am. Rep. 117.

In English law. Those who falsely pretend an extraordinary commission from heaven, or terrify and abuse the people with false denunciations of judgment ; punishable with fine, imprisonment, and infamous corporal punishment. 4 Broom & H. Comm. 71.

Defined under Religious in Black's Law Dictionary.