COURT OF DELEGATES - Black's Law Dictionary

What is COURT OF DELEGATES? Definition of COURT OF DELEGATES in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.

An English tribunal composed of delegates appointed by royal  commission, and  formerly the great  court of appeal in all ecclesiastical causes. The  powers of the court  were,  by 2 & 3 Wm.  IV. c. 92, transferred to the privy council. Brown; 3 Bl. Comm. 66; 1 Holdsw. Hist. E. L. 373.

A commission of review was formerly  granted,  in extraordinary cases,  to revise  a sentence of the court  of delegates, when that  court had  apparently been led  into material error.

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