The dispute was taken through the ecclesiastical courts and decided against her.

I have taken as my model the ecclesiastical courts of the Doctors Commons.

There had been great disputes between the civil and ecclesiastical courts concerning bastardy.

They allowed of appeals to parliament from all ecclesiastical courts.

Also there are manor courts, borough courts, and ecclesiastical courts.

Though he could only catch the renegades and turn them over to the ecclesiastical courts.

In 1637, the king proclaimed that the common law courts could not intervene in ecclesiastical courts.

A bill for improving the ecclesiastical courts in England also received the sanction of the legislature.

If they apply to the ecclesiastical courts, they can enforce no payment of their tithes then.

Its jurisdiction, which had been so closely watched, expanded freely and ecclesiastical courts and cases rapidly multiplied.

But they had to pay tithes and could be prosecuted in the ecclesiastical courts for not doing so.

SPANISH ecclesiastical courts are being urged by the Vatican to exercise more restraint in their granting of marriage annulments.

Formerly, the Order supplied clerks, scribes, and secretaries to the secular clergy, and to both royal and ecclesiastical courts.

It did ask for a reform in the ecclesiastical courts, and it demanded provision for the training of godly ministers.

In declining to erect ecclesiastical courts Wilmot not only gratified many, but he followed the direction of his legal advisers.

Nothing could be more cruel than the treatment of this heroic girl, and all under the forms of ecclesiastical courts.