- In
English law, the
benefit of clergy (Law Latin:
privilegium clericale) was
originally a
provision by
which clergymen accused of a
crime could claim...
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Without Benefit of Clergy is a 1921
American silent drama film
directed by
James Young and
featuring Virginia Brown Faire,
Thomas Holding and
Boris Karloff...
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particularly the
benefit of clergy. It was
repealed by the
Criminal Law Act 1967. The act has
sixteen parts.
Parts I - V
concerned the
formalities of pleading...
- The
Benefit of Clergy Act 1496,
formally referred to as the Act 12 Hen. 7 c. 7, was an Act
of the
Parliament of England, p****ed
during the
reign of Henry...
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essay "
Benefit of Clergy",
intended for the
volume published in 1944, was
suppressed on
grounds of obscenity, but its
title remains in the
table of contents...
- The
Benefit of Clergy Act 1575 (18 Eliz. 1. c. 7), long
title An Act to take away
clergy from the
offenders in rape and burglary, and an
order for the...
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judges for
convicted criminals. With
modifications to the
traditional benefit of clergy,
which originally exempted only
clergymen from the
general criminal...
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renounced Judaism could not
claim benefit of clergy. In
England itself the
practice of granting benefit of clergy was
ended in 1827 but it continued...
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sorceries or any
of them take upon them to tell or
declare where goodes stollen or lost
shall become ... The Act also
removed the
benefit of clergy, a
legal device...
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England in 1550. From the time
of Henry VII,
branding was
inflicted for all
offences which received benefit of clergy.
Branding of the
thumbs was used around...
