Excommunication

Excommunication

Major Excommunication

From the book The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law, about Major Excommunication (1): As excommunication non tolerati affects the rights of citizenship, it is not lawful in England nor the United States. To say that A. has been excommunicated in any form, if untrue, is slander.

Discretion, Excommunication

From the book The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law, about Discretion, Excommunication (2): A court has no authority to control the exercise of the judgment or discretion of the officers of a church in the management of its funds so long as they do not violate its constitution or by-laws.305 Excommunication does not always remove an officer of a church corporation.306 The legal rights of a bishop in regard to the temporalities of a church where they are not prescribed by civil law, must rest, if at all, upon the ecclesiastical law, which must be determined by evidence.

Definitions, Minor

From the book The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law, about Definitions, Minor (3): Excommunication, as construed in law, is the official announcement by the superior authority of the termination of membership in a religious body and the forfeiture of spiritual privileges of the church. It is one of the methods of discipline in the nature of expulsion from membership in a fraternity, and the fact of expulsion from a church is conclusive proof that the person expelled is not a member of such church. Whether the excommunication was wrong or not can not be examined into in the courts of the State, and such expelled member can not maintain a suit in relation to church property nor vote for trustees.

Excommunication

In relation to religious matters, find out about Excommunication and the following issues in this world legal Encyclopedia:

  • Definitions, Minor
  • Major Excommunication
  • Vote, Sentence
  • Action, Expulsion
  • Forfeiture of Membership
  • Insubordination, Expulsion, Hearing
  • Injunction, Mandamus, Sepulture
  • Expulsion, Illegal
  • Freedom, Faith, Doctrine
  • Trustees, Disqualified
  • Devise, Void
  • Fraternity, Excommunicated, Bequest

Resources

Notes and References

  1. Charles M. Scanlan, The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law. The Law of Church and Grave (1909), Benziger Brothers, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago
  2. Id.
  3. Id.

See Also

  • Religion
  • Church

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