In English ecclesiastical law. A jurisdiction or tribunal belonging to the archblshop. It does not hold pleas in any suits, but creates rights to pews, monuments, and particular places, and modes of burial. It has also various powers under 25 Hen. VIII. c. 21, in granting licenses of different descriptions, ns a license to marry, a faculty to erect an organ in a parish church, to level a church-yard, to re-move bodies previously burled. 4 Inst. 337
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
