What is COURT OF PECULIARS? Definition of COURT OF PECULIARS in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
A spiritual court in England, being a branch of, and annexed to, the Court of Arches. It has a jurisdiction over all those parishes dispersed through the province of Canterbury, in the midst of other dioceses, which are exempt from the ordinary's jurisdiction, and subject to the metropolitan only. All ecclesiastical causes arising within these peculiar or exempt jurisdictions are originally cognizable by this court, from which an appeal lies to the Court of Arches. 3 Steph. Comm. 431; 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, Most of such courts have been abolished by legislation. 1 Holdsw. Hist. Eng. Law 352. See, also, Arches Court.
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