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    The Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860 (ECJA) (23 & 24 Vict. c. 32) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is one of the Ecclesiastical...
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  • An ecclesiastical court, also called court Christian or court spiritual, is any of certain courts having jurisdiction mainly in spiritual or religious...
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  • 4A Church Warden s3 Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860 Court bailiff Court officer Court security officer s53 Courts Act 2003 (power to restrain...
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    Brawling Act 1553 (1 Mar. Sess. 2. c. 3) was an Act of the Parliament of England. Section 6 of the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860 provided...
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    the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860. The whole Act was repealed by section 87 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure...
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    and wholly repealed as regards laymen by the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860. Under that Act, which applies to Ireland as well as to England...
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  • under section 2 of the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860 Offences under section 7 of the Burial Laws Amendment Act 1880 Offences under section...
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    Law Revision Act 1948. Section 6 of the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860 provided that nothing contained thereinbefore in that Act was to be taken...
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  • Churchwarden (category Anglican ecclesiastical offices)
    Church of England. Retrieved 2019-02-18. "Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860". legislation.gov.uk. 1860. Retrieved 2014-08-13. "Churchwardens Measure...
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    Government Act 1972. They also said that there was a considerable overlap with the offence in section 2 of the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860. This...
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    law on divorce, moving litigation from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to the civil courts, establishing a model of marriage based on contract...
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    Tatchell's prosecution under the little-used Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860 (formerly part of the Brawling Act 1551), which prohibits any form of disruption...
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  • history of the courts of England and Wales, the Court of Probate was created by the Court of Probate Act 1857, which transferred the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical...
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    but the Act remained in force for 91 years until it was repealed on 1 March 1965 by the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963. The Act extended to...
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    the last to be admitted. The Court of Probate Act 1857 abolished the testamentary jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts and gave common lawyers the...
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    Marriage Act 1949 Offences under section 2 of the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860 Offences under section 7 of the Burial Laws Amendment Act 1880...
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  • The Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Durham and Sadberge was a court of chancery that exercised jurisdiction within the County Palatine of...
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    Offences Colonial Act 1860" was conferred on this act by section 1(2) of, and the first schedule to, the Foreign Jurisdiction Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict...
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    contempt of ecclesiastical court in Hauxton PCC v Stevens, resulting from non-payment of chancel repair liability, the act moved jurisdiction from the ecclesiastical...
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    The Act 16 Cha. 1. c. 11, sometimes referred to as the Ecclesiastical Causes Act 1640, the Abolition of High Commission Court Act 1640, the High Commission...
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  • particularly used in ecclesiastical law, is an act of restraint or prohibition, for a writ from a superior to an inferior court, suspending proceedings...
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    within the jurisdiction of the common law courts as opposed to the ecclesiastical courts). Further provision was made by the Bigamy Act 1795 (35 Geo...
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    Vict. c. 88) Ecclesiastical Leasing Act 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 57) General Pier and Harbour Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 45) Defence Act 1860 (23 & 24 Vict...
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  • Maphrian (category Ecclesiastical titles)
    unite Christians within the Sassanian Empire under a single ecclesiastical authority and act as a link with the Christians within the Roman Empire. However...
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  • church courts. Legal action in these ecclesiastical courts was either instigated as an Instance Cause or an Office Cause (Office Jurisdiction). An Instance...
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    R v Registrar General, ex p Segerdal (category High Court of Justice cases)
    England and Wales First Report - CHAPTER 5: The Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act, 1860" "Supreme Court Judgement: R (on the application of Hodkin and...
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  • Commission recognized pluralism in worship, but the act was not repealed until the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963. In 1933, the English Church Union...
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  • Office Cause (category Ecclesiastical courts)
    Office Cause (Office Jurisdiction) was a type of legal process in the English church courts. Legal action in these ecclesiastical courts was either instigated...
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    as was whipping. Mediaeval courts were limited in their scope; lords generally held their own courts, which had jurisdiction over the lord's subjects....
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    subject to the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts (which did not have the power to impose capital sentences) rather than the civil courts, but, by the...
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