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Consistory Gourts

Courts held by diocesan bishops within their several cathedrals, for tbe trlal of eccleslastlcal causes arising within thelr respective dioceses. The bishop’s chancellor, or hls commissary, is the judge; and from hls sentence an ap-peal lies to the archbishop. Mozley & whit-ley

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)