A spiritual court in England, belng a branch of, and annexed to, the Court of Arches. It has a jurisdiction over all those parishes dis-persed through the province of Canterbury, in the midst of other dioceses, which are exempt from the ordinary’s jurisdiction, and subject to the metropolitan only. AU ecclesiastical causes arising within these peculiar or exempt jurisdictions are originally cog-nizable hy this court, from which an appeal lies to the Court of Arches. 3 Steph. Comm. 431; 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 104
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
