Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Eadem causa diversis rationibus coram judicibus ecclesiasticis et secularibus ventilatur

The same cause is argued upon different principles before ecclesiastical and secular judges.

Nemo militans Deo implicetur secularibus negotiis

No one warring for God should be troubled by secular business.

Secular

adj. Worldly, as distinguished from spiritual <secular business>.

forum seculare

[Latin] Hist. A secular court. - Also spelled forum saeculare.

secular clergy

1. Clergy who have no particular religious affiliation or do not belong to a particular religious denomination. 2. Clergy who live in their parishes and minister there, as contrasted with regular clergy who live in monasteries.