Court of the Archdeacon

The Court of the Archdeacon, or Archdeaconry Court, is an obsolete

Consistory Court (the court of the bishop of the diocese), and an appeal lay from the Archdeacon's Court to the Consistory Court, so in practice by the nineteenth century suitors used the higher rather than the lower court, and the Archdeacon's Court had become obsolete.^[1]

The Archdeacon's Court had jurisdiction over both clergy and laity. During the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries much of the business of the court involved offences against public morality, such as adultery and fornication, lewd behaviour, and also slander, giving rise to its popular nickname of "The Bawdy Court".

justices of the peace

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References

^ Moore, E. Garth (1967). An Introduction to English Canon Law. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 126.
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[1] Moore, E. Garth (1967). An Introduction to English Canon Law. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 126.

[2] ISBN 978-0236154463
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[3] ISBN 978-0900592829
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