Definitions from Wiktionary (benefit of clergy)
▸ noun: (UK, law, historical) A legal provision by which clergymen (and, later, anybody who could read) could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ecclesiastical court under canon law.
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▸ noun: (UK, law, historical) A legal provision by which clergymen (and, later, anybody who could read) could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ecclesiastical court under canon law.
Similar:
privilege,
living,
common law,
indicavit,
patronage,
Claim of Right,
benefice,
advocation,
secular arm,
castle doctrine,
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