COURT OF  HIGH COMMISSION - Black's Law Dictionary

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

In  English law.  An ecclesiastical court of formidable jurisdiction, for the vindication of the peace  and dignity  of the church, by reforming, ordering, and correcting the ecclesiastical  state and persons, and all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offenses,  contempts, and enormities. 3 Bl. Comm. 67 It was erected by St. 1 Eliz. c. 1, and abolish-ed by 16 Car. I, c. 11. 1 Holdsw. Hist.  E. L. 375.

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