Spiritual courts

Ecclesiastical Wkly. Notes Cas. (Pa.) 282. See Gray, Restr. on Alienation, where the courts (q. v.). cases are fully considered and a protest made SPIRITUAL LORDS. The two archbishagainst the validity of such trusts. ops and twenty-four of the bishops of the Church of England, who sit as peers in the

In English law. The ecclesiastical courts, or courts Christian. See 3 Bl. Comm. 61.

Defined under Court in Black's Law Dictionary.

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Courts eedesiastieal,