Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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ecclesiastical
adj. Of or relating to the church, esp. as an institution. -Also termed ecclesiastic.
ecclesiastical authorities
The church's hierarchy, answerable to the Crown, but set apart from the rest of the citizens, responsible for superintending public worship and other religious ceremonies and for administering spiritual counsel and instruction. * In England, the several orders of the clergy are (1) archbishops and bishops, (2) deans and chapters, (3) archdeacons, (4) rural deans, (5) parsons (under whom are included appropriators) and vicars, and (6) curates. Church-wardens, sidesmen, parish clerks, and sextons are also considered types of ecclesiastical authorities because their duties are connected with the church. Cf. ecclesiastical courts under COURTS.
ecclesiastical commissioners
Hist. English law. A group of people empowered to suggest measures to improve the established church's efficiency, to be ratified by orders in council. 0 This body of commissioners, established by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act (1836), has been dissolved. Its functions, rights, and property are now vested in church commissioners. St. 6 & 7 Will. 4, ch. 77.
ecclesiastical corporation
English law. A corporation that is organized for spiritual purposes or for the administration of property held for religious uses. This type of corporation is composed exclusively of ecclesiastics. - Also termed religious corporation. Cf. lay corporation."Ecclesiastical corporations. Corporations created for the furtherance of religion .... They are of two kinds: (1) corporations sole, i.e., bishops, certain deans, parsons and vicars; and (2) corporations aggregate, i.e., deans and chapters, and formerly prior and convent, abbot and monks, and the like. Such corporations are called 'religious corporations,' or 'religious societies,' in the United States." 1 Stewart Rapalje & Robert L. Lawrence, A Dictionary of American and English Law 432 (1883).
ecclesiastical court
1. A religious court that hears matters concerning a particular religion. 2. In England, a court having jurisdiction over matters concerning the Church of England (the established church) as well as the duties and rights of the people serving it, but whose modern jurisdiction is limited to matters of ecclesiastical discipline and church property. - Also termed church court; court christian; spiritual court.
ecclesiastical jurisdiction
Jurisdiction over ecclesiastical cases and controversies, such as that exercised by ecclesiastical courts.
ecclesiastical law
1. The body of law derived largely from canon and civil law and administered by the ecclesiastical courts. 2. The law governing the doctrine and discipline of a particular church; esp., Anglican canon law. -Also termed jus ecclesiasticum; law spiritual. Cf. CANON LAW.
ecclesiastical matter
A matter that concerns church doctrine, creed, or form of worship, or the adoption and enforcement, within a religious association, of laws and regulations to govern the membership, including the power to exclude from such an association those deemed unworthy of membership.
ecclesiastical sentence
The judgment in an ecclesiastical case.
ecclesiastical things
Property (such as buildings and cemeteries) given to a church to supp,)rt the poor or for any other pious use.