Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Court of Audience

Hist. Eccles. law. A court in which the two archbishops exercise personal jurisdiction. ( This court was abolished in 1963. "Just as the bishop did not deprive himself of all jurisdiction by delegation to an official or commissary, so the archbishop did not originally deprive himself of all jurisdiction by delegation to the official principal. He possessed a jurisdiction concurrent with that of the court of the Arches, which was exercised in the court of Audience. In later times this jurisdiction was exercised by the judge of the court of Audience. At one time the archbishop may have exercised a considerable part of this jurisdiction in this court." 1 William Holdsworth, A History of English Law 601 (7th ed. 1956).