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| | CLERGY - LoveToKnow Article on CLERGY |
 | | Benefit of clergy began with the claim on the part of the ecclesiastical authorities in the 12th century that every clericus should be exempt from the jurisdiction of the temporal courts and be subject to the spiritual courts alone. | | | The benefit of clergy was abolished by a statute of 1827, but as this statute did n.ot repeal that of 1547, under which peers were given the privilege, a further statute was passed in 1841 putting peers on the same footing as commons and clergy. | | | The Presbyterian model was, for instance, as sacerdotal in its essence as the Catholic; Milton complained with justice that new presbyter is but old priest writ large, and declared that the Title of Clergy St Peter gave to all Gods people, its later restriction being a papal and prelatical usurpation (i.e. |
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| | Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground: Cardinal Law and the Benefit of Clergy |
| | The "benefit of clergy" is the exemption from the jurisdiction of the secular courts, which in England, in the Middle Ages, was accorded to clergy. | | | The privilege of benefit of clergy was entirely abolished in England in 1827, by Statutes 7 and 8 Geo. | | | As long as the Church views sexual abuse of children by clergy as a moral failure, a breach of the vow of chastity, even a cardinal sin, it is a matter for confession, penitence, forgiveness and absolution. |
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| | Blackstone's Commentaries - Book the Fourth - Chapter the Twenty-Eighth : Of the Benefit of Clergy |
| | CLERGY, the privilegium clerical, or in common fpeech the benefit of clergy, had it's original from the pious regard paid by chriftian princes to the church in it's infant ftate; and the ill ufe which the popifh ecclefiaftics foon made of that pious regard. | | | Accordingly the ftatute directs, that no perfon, once admitted to the benefit of clergy, fhall be admitted thereto a fecond time, unlefs he produces his orders: and, in order to diftinguifh their perfons, all laymen who are allowed this privilege fhall be burnt with a hot iron in the brawn of the left thump. | | | That, when the benefit of clergy is taken away from the offence, (as in cafe of murder, buggery, robbery, rape, and burglary) a principal in the fecond degree, aiding and abetting the crime, is as well excluded from his clergy as he that is principal in |
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| | benefit of clergy - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Benefit of Clergy : Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info] | | | BENEFIT of CLERGY : The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary) [home, info] | | | Benefit of Clergy : Catholic Encyclopedia [home, info] |
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| | benefit of clergy benefit of clergy, term originally applied to the exemption of Christian clerics from criminal prosecution in the secular courts. | | | clergy, benefit of clergy, benefit of: see benefit of clergy. | | | Look up "benefit of clergy" on HighBeam™ Research. |
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| | Criminal Punishment at the Old Bailey |
| | Through benefit of clergy, use of pardons, and respited sentences due to pregnancy or in order to perform military or naval duty, many of those sentenced to death were not actually executed. | | | Through the mechanisms of benefit of clergy and pardons many more defendants found guilty of capital offences were spared the death penalty and sentenced only to branding, transportation, imprisonment, or received no punishment at all. | | | Convicts who successfully pleaded benefit of clergy, and those found guilty of manslaughter instead of murder, were branded on the thumb (with a "T" for theft, "F" for felon, or "M" for murder), so that they would be unable to receive this benefit more than once. |
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| | Benefit of clergy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In English law, the benefit of clergy was originally a provision by which clergymen could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead under canon law. | | | This opened the door to secular, but nonetheless literate defendants also claiming the benefit of clergy, and in 1351 under Edward III this loophole was formalized in statute, and the benefit of clergy was officially extended to all who could read. | | | Women acquired the benefit of clergy in 1623, although it was not until 1691 that they were given equal privileges with men in this matter. |
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| | CLERGY - LoveToKnow Article on CLERGY |
| | Benefit of clergy began with the claim on the part of the ecclesiastical authorities in the 12th century that every clericus should be exempt from the jurisdiction of the temporal courts and be subject to the spiritual courts alone. | | | The benefit of clergy was abolished by a statute of 1827, but as this statute did n.ot repeal that of 1547, under which peers were given the privilege, a further statute was passed in 1841 putting peers on the same footing as commons and clergy. | | | It became the practice to claim and be allowed the benefit of clergy; and when it was the intention by statute to make a crime really punishable with death, it was awarded without benefit of clergy. |
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| | CJLF: Briefs: Ring Brief - Parts I-III (File 2 of 3) |
| | While the benefit of clergy was being extended to an expanding class of felons, it was also being restricted to a shrinking class of felonies. | | | Benefit of clergy did not survive long after the adoption of the Bill of Rights in most states. | | | The benefit of clergy began, as the name implies, as an exemption from punishment by secular courts for members of the clergy, as very broadly defined. |
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| | Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground: Cardinal Law and the Benefit of Clergy |
| | The "benefit of clergy" is the exemption from the jurisdiction of the secular courts, which in England, in the Middle Ages, was accorded to clergy. | | | The privilege of benefit of clergy was entirely abolished in England in 1827, by Statutes 7 and 8 Geo. | | | Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground: Cardinal Law and the Benefit of Clergy |
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| | clergy - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Phrases that include clergy: benefit of clergy, clergy reserves, clergy benefit of, secular clergy, assemblies of the french clergy, more... | | | CLERGY : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info] | | | CLERGY : The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary) [home, info] |
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| | The benefit of clergy grew up under the English law, when the authorities of the Roman Catholic Church demanded that the priests of that church should not be tried by the secular courts, but should be turned over to the ecclesiastical courts for trial. | | | It was customary at the time, where the prisoner claimed the benefit of clergy, in addition to some other punishment to burn him in the hand with a red-hot iron. | | | He saith thereof, he prayeth the benefit of his clergy, which is allowed to him. |
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| | Religious Liberty Archive : Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP, Colorado Springs, CO |
| | These exemptions were commonly called "benefit of clergy." In Section 31 of the Act that follows, Congress removed the benefit of clergy. | | | "It is that the benefit of clergy shall not be used or allowed, upon conviction of any crime, for which, by any statute of the United States, the punishment is or shall be declared to be death." | | | Religious Liberty Archive : Rothgerber Johnson and Lyons LLP, Colorado Springs, CO An Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes Against The United States, 1790 ("Benefit of Clergy"). |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Benefit of Clergy |
| | Benefit of Clergy; DESMOND, The Church and The Law (Chicago, 1898); BLACK, Law Dictionary, s.v. | | | I, 57, x 9.) When a clerk was brought before a lay court, he proved his claim to benefit of clergy by reading, and he was turned over to the ecclesiastical court, as only the clergy were generally able to read. | | | Women in the reign of William and Mary were admitted to the privileges of men in clergyable felonies, on praying the benefit of the statute (3 and 4 Will. |
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| | Clergy Vacations |
| | The purchase money came from the sale of the Ocean City clergy cottage, and under the terms of the benefactors will the money must be used for the recreational benefit of clergy. | | | Since then the benefit has been expanded to include retired clergy, clergy widows, and now lay persons who are on parish or diocesan staffs. | | | Active and retired clergy who are resident or working in this diocese, widows of clergy who were resident here, and salaried lay staff persons from the Bishops office and parish offices. |
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| | A Draft of a Legal and Constitutional Account Turnabout |
| | The benefit of clergy was extended to all literate men as a result of changes in the manner in which the ordinary determined whether a person pleading his clergy was in fact a clerk. | | | The benefit of clergy and the privilege of sanctuary were forms of extraterritoriality and in their main features were justifiable as such. | | | As it existed at the beginning of the Tudor period, the benefit of clergy may be described as the exemption of clerks from secular punishment for felonies, except for those touching the king. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Benefit of Clergy |
| | Clergy, Benefit of, exemption from punishment by the king's courts. | | | The Benefit of Clergy was gained by the clergy of England in 1176 as a result of... | | | Not even Henry VIII, however, ended the “benefit of clergy,” which Henry II had to accept after Becket’s death. |
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| | Legislative Changes Proposed to Residence Deduction for the Clergy |
| | In instances where the employer provides the clergy residence, the deduction for the residence offsets the corresponding housing taxable benefit, and the clergy person pays income tax only on the salary component of his or her employment income. | | | Under the existing clergy residence deduction, certain members of the clergy or of religious organizations are allowed to claim a deduction in respect of their residence. | | | In this instance, the amount of the deduction is equal to the rent paid for the residence or, if it is owned by the clergy person, the fair rental value of the residence. |
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| | from Davis's The Law in Shakespeare |
| | Benefit of clergy is alluded to in 2 Henry VI (IV. | | | In 1827 benefit of clergy was abolished generally, but, by a slip, peers were not included in that statute. | | | the theft of goods under the value of twelve pence), were punishable with death, subject to 'benefit of clergy', where it applied. |
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| | benefit of clergy - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about benefit of clergy |
| | The benefit was granted by the Constitutions of Clarendon 1164 which laid down that members of the clergy should be exempt from the jurisdiction of lay courts, except in the case of infringement of royal forest laws. | | | By the 15th century it was sufficient to be able to read to claim benefit, as the church had a strong association with learning and literacy was taken to be sufficient proof of being a member of the clergy. | | | Benefit Audit Fund (State of California unemployment system) |
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| | Guidelines for Ethical Relationships Between Clergy and Congregations |
| | The relationship of trust which we prize so highly can be damaged by clergy's benefitting personally from any trusts established for the benefit of the Church or by in any way inducing someone in the clergy person's pastoral care to leave money or other property to them. | | | Every aspect of the financial relationship between clergy and congregation or anyone in the congregation must be deemed to be a matter of trust. | | | It is commendable, therefore, that members of the clergy transfer to the Church bequests made to the clergy person in gratitude for his or her ministry. |
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| | Clergy Compensation and Benefit Guidelines |
| | This would benefit the clergy in that such a fund would mimic the appreciation of owning a home in the area served, and it would serve the church well in helping to retain experienced and beloved clergy. | | | In this instance, clergy need to be mindful of the amount requested in an annual housing allowance resolution by each spouse of their respective vestry or vestry committee. | | | The Church Pension Fund reports that the median compensation of clergy within the Diocese of Virginia continues to be in the top quartile in the Episcopal Church (based on a "full-time" proxy compensation of $27,000 as a threshold). |
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| | benefit of clergy -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | More results on "benefit of clergy" when you join. | | | "clergy, benefit of." Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. | | | In England, in the late 12th century, the church succeeded in compelling Henry II and the royal courts to grant every clericus, or “clerk” (i.e., a member of the clergy below a priest), accused of a capital offense immunity from trial or punishment in the secular courts. |
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| | Benefit of clergy thus mitigated the severities of English criminal law, which imposed the death penalty for many offenses now deemed trivial. | | | benefit of clergy, term originally applied to the exemption of Christian clerics from criminal prosecution in the secular courts. | | | Criminal law was ameliorated in the early 19th cent., and in 1827 benefit of clergy was abolished as being no longer necessary. |
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| | Studies in Church History: The Rise of the Temporal Power, Benefit of Clergy, Excommunication, The Early Church and Slavery by Henry Charles Lea |
| | The impunity conferred by the benefit of clergy on clerical offenders necessarily exercised the most unfortunate influence on the church itself, and was a powerful element in bringing about the corruption of the ecclesiastical body which was the disgrace of the middle ages. | | | Not less energetic and decisive was his action when the Mexican constitution of 1855 proposed to abolish the benefit of clergy; the constitution was at once declared to be annulled, and its supporters were warned of the penalties in store for them. | | | There could be little in common between the established clergy of Gaul, for instance, and the untamed German hordes which presented themselves for Christianization and civilization; and the antagonism naturally existing under such circumstances left its indelible impress on the character and policy of the church. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Clergy |
| | Clergy, Benefit of, historically in England, exemption of the clergy from punishment by the king's courts. | | | The Benefit of Clergy was gained by the... | | | Clergy, term applied to the body of ministers of the Christian Church in contradistinction to the laity. |
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| | Benefit of Clergy |
| | A layman could only receive the benefit of clergy once, however, and he was not allowed to go without being branded on the thumb, a punishment which later was commuted to whipping, imprisonment or transportation. | | | The benefit of clergy was abolished in 1827. | | | Ben'efit of Cler'gy, a privilege formerly recognized in England, by which the clergy accused of capital offenses were exempted from the jurisdiction of lay tribunals and were left to be dealt with by their bishop. |
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| | Britannia History: 14th Century Churchmen |
| | This was important because it allowed them to claim 'benefit of clergy' - the privilege of not having to appear before a secular court of law for an alleged offence. | | | Such clergy were often from poor backgrounds, were poorly educated and many of them received meagre benefices from which to support their pastoral work. | | | In the Universities there were bitter disputes between the secular clergy and the friars, often over benefices; different orders of friars might be hostile to each other; and, in the parishes, local clergy often resented friars coming into their church and preaching to their congregation. |
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| | CLERGY, BENEFIT OF - Online Information article about CLERGY, BENEFIT OF |
| | Benefit of clergy began with the claim on the See also: | | | CLERGY, BENEFIT OF, an obsolete but once very important feature in See also: | | | general learning was confined to the clergy, and as they were practically the only persons who could read and write all notarial and secretarial See also: |
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| | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - benefit of clergy |
| | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - benefit of clergy | | | Search for "benefit of clergy" in all of MSN Encarta | | | clerical exemption from civil trial: the privilege held by the Christian clergy in the Middle Ages that entitled them to trial by an ecclesiastical court and exemption from trial by secular authorities |
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