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    Benefit of clergy

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    benefit of clergy · “benefit of clergy”

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    Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John20th Century · English

    A claimed ecclesiastical immunity understood to be included in the Church's demand for freedom.

    Churchmen made it clear, however, that they meant it to include at least two principles—“benefit of clergy,” and “canonical election.
    iii william i to henry ii problem of church and st
    Henry had no intention to confirm “benefit of clergy” in so sweeping a form, or to renounce wardship over vacant sees.
    magna carta its form and contents i its prototypes

    Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England20th Century · English

    Benefit of clergy, a legal survival granting an unjustifiable privilege to criminals who were clerks in orders, remaining in force until 1827.

    Benefit of clergy remained in force till 1827.
    b absence of changes in the law
    Benefit of clergy, as regulated by law in 1800, though it no doubt mitigated the monstrous severity of punishments for crime, did in certain instances give an unjustifiable privilege or protection to criminals who happened to be clerks in orders.
    b absence of changes in the law