How to pronounce “benefit of clergy”

Meaning

• [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.

Practice Nearby Words

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