Benefit of clergy

noun

Definitions

1.nounA legal provision by which clergymen (and, later, anybody who could read) could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ecclesiastical court under canon law.

Synonyms

privilege living common law indicavit patronage claim of right benefice advocation secular arm castle doctrine priv special licence

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