benefit of clergy
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A legal provision by which clergymen (and, later, anybody who could read) could claim…
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.
- It will be seen that what the defenders of Dali are claiming is a kind of benefit of clergy. That artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people.
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No curated loop yet for benefit of clergy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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