Ecclesiastical Courts
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Ecclesiastical tribunals · ecclesiastical jurisdiction · one supreme court · the ecclesiastical courts
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Ancient Law
English courts exercising jurisdiction over one class of Wills, applying Roman-derived principles.
The jurisdiction over one class of Wills was delegated to the Ecclesiastical Courts, which applied to them, though not always intelligently, the principles of Roman jurisprudence;
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The English church courts used by Archbishop Laud to absorb common law jurisdiction in pursuit of religious uniformity.
Archbishop Laud, under the supremacy of Charles the second, attempted to effect a religious uniformity by the instrumentality of judges, and drew for that purpose a great portion of the business of the common law courts, into the ecclesiastical, having at their head one supreme court.