The Church had its (1) Ecclesiastical Courts, which as elsewhere in Europe had attempted to extend their jurisdiction very widely, not only over clergy but over laity.
Ecclesiastical Courts to encroach on the domain of secular jurisdiction being met by the Appels comme d'abus (abuse), which were presented to the Parlement of Paris.
But the conception that the secular power ought to support with civil pains and penalties the disciplinary decisions of ecclesiastical Courts, must have produced a tyranny not unlike what had existed in the mediaeval Church.
This establishment of ecclesiastical courts, with their own system of law, was doubtless pleasing to the Pope, for the old English practice was contrary to the spirit of Hildebrand's work.
The most important of these urged that a check should be put on the issue of prohibitions from the king's court staying proceedings in ecclesiastical courts.
Officials, even of bishops and metropolitans, need not be in holy orders, though Bishop Stubbs in his paper in the Report of the Commission on Ecclesiastical Courts seems to say so.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ecclesiastical courts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
