Benefit Of Clergy Definition

noun
The authorized sanction of a religious rite.
Cohabiting without benefit of clergy.
American Heritage
The exemption of the medieval clergy from trial or punishment except in a church court.
Webster's New World
Exemption from trial or punishment in a civil court, given to the clergy in the Middle Ages.
American Heritage
An administering or sanctioning by the church.
A couple that is married without benefit of clergy.
Webster's New World

Benefit Of Clergy Sentence Examples

  • These claimed benefit of clergy and were branded in the hand and released.

  • At common law benefit of clergy was denied to robbers of churches.

  • This canon was adopted and explained by an English statute of 1276; and bigamy, therefore, became a usual counterplea to the claim of benefit of clergy.

  • However, by an act of 1547 every person entitled to the benefit of clergy is to be allowed the same, "although he hath been divers times married to any single woman or single women, or to any widow or widows, or to two wives or more."

  • In time, " benefit of clergy " became entirely diverted from its original objects.

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