Court of Peculiars
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The Court of Peculiars is an ecclesiastical court
of the Church of England
.
The court sits with a Dean, who is also the Dean of the Arches. The Registrars are the Joint Provincial Registrars. The Court of Peculiars deals with all legal matters from peculiar parishes in the province. Ecclesiastical judges were required to have a degree in canon law until 1545 , thereafter they only had the doctorate in civil law . Binding precedent was only introduced into the ecclesiastical courts in the nineteenth century .
Ecclesiastical court
An ecclesiastical court is any of certain courts having jurisdiction mainly in spiritual or religious matters. In the Middle Ages in many areas of Europe these courts had much wider powers than before the development of nation states...
of the Church of England
Church of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
.
The court sits with a Dean, who is also the Dean of the Arches. The Registrars are the Joint Provincial Registrars. The Court of Peculiars deals with all legal matters from peculiar parishes in the province. Ecclesiastical judges were required to have a degree in canon law until 1545 , thereafter they only had the doctorate in civil law . Binding precedent was only introduced into the ecclesiastical courts in the nineteenth century .
List of Deans of the Court of Peculiars
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